{"id":399,"date":"2018-12-31T07:23:00","date_gmt":"2018-12-31T06:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.codemotion.com\/magazine\/interview-andrea-giannantonio-wtf-it-works-in-dev-environment\/"},"modified":"2021-07-05T13:12:59","modified_gmt":"2021-07-05T11:12:59","slug":"interview-andrea-giannantonio-wtf-it-works-in-dev-environment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.codemotion.com\/magazine\/dev-life\/cto\/interview-andrea-giannantonio-wtf-it-works-in-dev-environment\/","title":{"rendered":"WTF it works in Dev Environment"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Hello Andrea, you’ve been a fan of Codemotion<\/span> for a long time but could you tell us a little bit<\/span> about yourself?<\/b><\/p>\n\n\n\n

My name is Andrea Giannantonio, I work for the Immobiliare.it group. To be more specific, I manage a technical team<\/span> of five people who, together with other teams<\/span>, work at LuxuryEstate, a product focused mainly on luxury homes, upmarket properties, luxury villas, castles, etc. on an international scale (the product is translated into 16 languages!). As for the communities<\/span>, I have been attending RomaJS meetups since the very beginning (already for five years), as well as PUG Roma meetups. At RomaJS meetups we deal with JavaScript<\/span>, while PUG Roma it’s all about PHP<\/span>, which are two programming languages<\/span> I work with. I also like them most because they let me follow the web scene. I have been a member of PUG Roma for a few years: it was the first meetup I attended, about eight years ago. <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In my free time, I keep myself constantly updated with JavaScript and PHP frameworks. Apart from that, fortunately, my work allows me to follow other passions of mine. I like going to rap concerts, watching TV series and food.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

You told us that your work and your passion have coincided and that staying up-to-date isn’t a burden for you because it’s part of your passion. How do you keep yourself up-to-date? Is there any method that you prefer? Do you follow webinars, online courses? Do you read books?<\/b><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Actually, I do everything! I try to be engaged with multiple sources. In our communities<\/span>, we use social media (Twitter and Slack) to share materials and experience. Within the company<\/span>, we do the same thing. We have been trying to create a community<\/span> for almost two years, through tools similar to Slack, to discuss not only about tech evolution but also about us. We engage with one another, we exchange links, videos, books about topics of our interest. <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Actually, there are different ways for learning more. Sometimes you can buy a book, other times you can attend the talks at the conferences, or you can learn from videos or blog articles related to the chosen topic. One source of information for developers that is getting very popular right now is Medium, where you can often find really interesting materials.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Why did you choose your job<\/span>?<\/b><\/p>\n\n\n\n

I got my degree in IT and one of my last exams was related to database<\/span>. In order to pass this exam, I carried out a small technical project<\/span>. On that occasion, I used both the PHP language and JavaScript framework<\/a> to create a website that dealt with music by aggregating artists and their album covers. A trivial thing to think about now, but this happened more or less 10 years ago and that project<\/span> was a real flash of inspiration from the business point of view. I’ve always had a passion for computers, but before this moment I had no clear ideas about what I would like to work on. Thanks to this exam and also thanks to the university internship I did for a company<\/span> that worked on web projects, I fell in love with web development<\/span>, and everything began there.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Do you think that in the near future you’ll want to change your role or change your job<\/span>, or maybe you’ll prefer to continue working on your current project<\/span>?<\/b><\/p>\n\n\n\n

I consider myself very lucky because I work in a booming company<\/span> and I’m growing with my company<\/span> as well, so I don’t imagine my future away from it.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

What did you speak about during your last talk? Would you like to share it with us?<\/b><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The main aim of the talk was to let other colleagues know more about a really great tool, Sentry.io, which is a system of live error reporting. After adding it to your web product, server side and client side, at the precise moment when an anomaly occurs, the tool is able to intercept it and immediately it reports it via an issue on a dedicated web product. It provides visualisation of the entire stack trace in order to reproduce the problem, solve it immediately and get the fix produced straight away. The goal is, therefore, to avoid relying on user reports and to enable us to discover problems promptly, solve them and prevent other users from having the same problems. It’s a tool I discovered some years ago and I presented it to RomaJS meetup members because I find it very effective for client-side languages like JavaScript<\/span>. I’ll deliver the same talk during PUG Roma meetup because it’s also very effective on the server side. In the company<\/span>, it helped us in many different contexts to detect particular situations that were difficult to understand, even if we’d received a verbal or email notification.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n