For years we have tried to avoid mistakes, when in fact we should have caused them. — Wind extinguishes a candle and energizes fire. Likewise with randomness, uncertainty, chaos; you want to use them, not hide from them. Thus begins the prologue to Antifragile by Nassim Nicholas Taleb, one of the most popular authors of recent years. What does the randomness have to do with our work…

Why a simple architecture has been considered the root of all evils — Many of the enterprise software projects developed over the last 20 years have one thing in common: they are monolithic projects! With this word, we tend to refer to all those applications, whose business functionalities are grouped within the same software project. In simpler terms, if upon a building, your…

How not to lose effectiveness in the era of online training — In the early days of 2020, when Coronavirus starts hitting the world of businesses, the first job activities that have been stopped was the so-called workplace learning. According to a study by McKinsey: As of early March 2020, roughly one-half of in-person programs through June 30, 2020, have been postponed…

Come l’Errore può aiutarci a realizzare sistemi cloud veramente resilienti e performanti — Il vento spegne la candela e alimenta il fuoco. Lo stesso vale per il caso, l’incertezza e il caos: vogliamo usarli, non nasconderci da loro. Inizia così il prologo ad Antifragile di Nassim Nicholas Taleb, uno degli autori più apprezzati degli ultimi anni. Cosa c’entra il caso con il nostro…

Amazon API Gateway is a fully managed service that makes it easy to handle REST APIs. The main task of this service is to bind an HTTP endpoint to a given backend service, like a Lambda function.

Amazon Cognito is an AWS service that lets you easily add users’ management to web and mobile apps. It supports social identity providers, such as Facebook, Google and enterprise identity providers via SAML 2.0. A powerful service. At first, hard to understand. One of the things that generate the biggest…

This is the italian version of a story originally in English that you will find here. Thanks to my colleague Paolo D’Incau for the Italian translation and invaluable feedback. Per chi non lo conoscesse, AWS Lambda è una servizio che permette di eseguire della business logic senza la necessità di…

For those of you who might not be familiar with, AWS Lambda is a service platform that let us run our code without provisioning or managing servers. We just upload the source code and the platform takes care of everything required to run and scale it. Once deployed, that code…

Wise men say that the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. In a microservice architecture, we could be tempted to unit testing the single services, forgetting these are just parts of the system. — With good reason, unit tests are seen as a guiding light by every good developer. As the name suggests, this type of test involves just a unit of the overall codebase, without any external dependencies like databases, HTTP calls, queues, topics or something like that. …