Milan is a hotbed of community groups, building developing schools in English and Italian. We spoke to some of those involved to find out about the challenges, opportunities, and what insights they have to share with others interested in starting … Read more
.NET Async/Await and its catches
Since the introduction of the Task-based Asynchronous Pattern (or TAP) with .NET 4.0 programmers have enjoyed a simpler and streamlined approach to asynchronous programming in .NET, improving performance and readability of their code. If you are … Read more
Naturally born reactive systems
Modern applications are required to do many tasks at the same time, in the optimal way, and be very quick to respond to consumers’ input and expectations. Moreover, software needs to adapt to changing scenarios, in a consistent and resilient … Read more
Conversation AI is the new UX
The use of chatbots is a fast-growing business that meets the needs of all stakeholders involved. According to some recent researches, 80% of custom interactions can be resolved by well-designed bots (Accenture), 60% of the consumers want easier … Read more
Kotlin loves React
In the beginning were the webmasters, who knew about PHP and JavaScript. Then front-end and back-end tribes, and each followed their own path, differentiating and specialising. Finally, new programming languages and frameworks arrived, with the … Read more
Using AI for developing OTT platforms
Interest in artificial intelligence (AI) is growing day-by-day. This is confirmed by the ubiquitous presence of AI algorithms in a plethora of applications. Gianni Rosa Gallina, Senior Software Engineer at Deltatre, delivered an interesting speech at … Read more
How using cryptography helps to reduce the attack surface on data
Hi, I’m Anastasiia Voitova and I gave a talk about cryptography and risk management at Codemotion Milan 2018. I am product engineer in cryptographic software company Cossack Labs – we create developer-friendly software to protect data and to help … Read more
Software operability: a DevOps cornerstone
The software industry often seems to live in dichotomies and contrasts: business against developers, developers against testers, designers against business and so on, towards infinity and beyond. When a particular activity within the software … Read more
How MobX helps you manage your state
Managing state is one of the hottest and somewhat controversial topics in the frontend development world. A lot of effort has been made by several teams across the world to address state management with a clean and simple approach, creating libraries … Read more
Bridging psychology and game design for a shared advantage
What do psychology and video games have in common? Stigma! I’ve been researching the psychology of video games for a while. I now know psychology and the game industry are both victims of stigma. Psychology is mostly represented through the lens of … Read more
Light up the Spark in catalyst by avoiding UDF
We often talk about cloud computing, artificial intelligence and machine learning, but just as frequently we forget all the software architecture that is behind these projects and how the data is treated, manipulated and managed. The databases are in … Read more
Effective Spark for Neophytes
Starting to work in the processing of big data could be unsettling even for a developer who has solid foundations and experience in areas more related to "consumer" products. The software tools and computational systems for data science, in fact, … Read more