{"id":3437,"date":"2020-02-24T10:26:50","date_gmt":"2020-02-24T09:26:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.codemotion.com\/magazine\/?p=3437"},"modified":"2023-05-30T15:53:30","modified_gmt":"2023-05-30T13:53:30","slug":"reactive-amsterdam-community-tiriticco","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.codemotion.com\/magazine\/community-management\/reactive-amsterdam-community-tiriticco\/","title":{"rendered":"Reactive Amsterdam Community: interview with Fabio Tiriticco"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t\t\t
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  1. Reactive Amsterdam Community<\/a>
  2. Being a Tech Community Manager<\/a>
  3. Diversity in Tech Communities<\/a>
  4. Why and how to become a Community Manager<\/a>
  5. The success of a tech community<\/a><\/ol>\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\n\n\n

    Fabio Tiriticco is a software engineer, conference speaker and community leader of Reactive Amsterdam<\/strong> (check its page on Codemotion’s platform<\/a>). While building his own startup, Fabio fell in love \u2013 with Akka, Scala and Reactive systems, so much so that he founded the 2,000-strong Reactive Amsterdam meetup group.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    He specialises in architectures for distributed reactive systems, bridging application level and cloud orchestrators like Kubernetes.<\/p>\n\n\n

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    Fabio Tiriticco<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n

    He is passionate about the importance of integration between application logic and infrastructure. He has spoken about this subject at many conferences, including Codemotion. When not in front of a screen, Fabio enjoys long-distance bike rides and fingerpicking his guitar. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Before you keep on reading, let us suggest you read our full guide on how to be a better developer community manager<\/a> and go through our list of the best tools for planning a virtual conference<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Reactive Amsterdam Community<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

    Hi Fabio! Please tell us about your tech community, its members and objectives.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

    My community is called Reactive Amsterdam as it finds its inspiration in the Reactive trends in the tech industry: Reactive Programming, the Reactive Manifesto, the Reactive Streams standard and so forth. There are around 2,100 members at time of writing. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

    The main focus of this crowd is backend system programming with a strong tie to infrastructure issues. Performance, scalability and resilience are very important topics. We look at them from an architectural point of view more often than from an implementation perspective.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Being a Tech Community Manager<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

    What is it like being a tech community manager in your country? What is the tech scene in your country?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

    The Netherlands is a tiny country but its tech scene is incredible and very responsive. It has always been easy to find venues or companies able to sponsor our events. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

    This quality can be double-edged as well. Because of this great response, all sorts of companies are taking note and entering the community space. Their budget allows for bigger events and wider marketing reach than grassroots communities like mine can afford. They have dedicated people to the job while other organisers like me do this work in their free time. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

    What were the biggest problems you’ve had to overcome and how have you done this?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Haha – in fact I have a whole presentation about this! I gave it at the Italian Community Manager Summit 2019 in Milan. Of the 10 issues I go over there, the source of the biggest frustrations is probably (and predictably) related to our own expectations towards other people that we interact with. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Maybe it’s our co-organisers, maybe it’s the contact point at some sponsor – it could literally be anyone. The solution to this lies within ourselves as well: empathy. Becoming a more compassionate and empathic person is almost essential for emotional survival. Empathy really is your most powerful tool in an organising role.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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