Agentic AI removed the escape route
The principles you need were written down twenty years ago. Agents have removed the escape route for teams that ignored them.
Posts and articles
A collection of my thoughts, ideas, and learnings over the years.
Digital entrepreneurship and the coming "AI slop" wave
As AI-powered development becomes mainstream, entrepreneurs face new challenges. Learn how to balance rapid innovation with technical sustainability in the ‘vibe coding’ era.
AI-Powered Software Creation: Trends and Strategies for 2025
With LLMs revolutionizing software, here’s a look at emerging trends and strategies to succeed in the AI-powered era.
My 2023 reading list
My 2023 readling list
Learnings from 7 years of hyper growth at Signal AI
Lessons and learnings from being the CTO of Signal AI
My 2022 reading list
A selection of the books I read over 2022.
My 2021 reading list
The books I read over 2021. Of the six I fully read, two in particular caught my attention.
The \"healthy tension\" nonsense
A long term partnership between Product and Technology, rather than a “healthy tension”, is the secret for success.
Transform your decision-making with Data Analytics
A well-thought data analytics capability is critical to enhance decision making. But timing in creating it is critical to avoid rework and frustration.
Two challenges and two opportunities in the age of AI
AI is revolutionizing our society. Like all the paradigm shift, it creates few challenges as well as several opportunities.
Common Sense Engineering
You don’t need complex process to run your Engineering organisation. Four principles based on common sense is all you need.
Select programming languages with your strategy hat on
Choosing programming languages is more than picking what’s trending now. It’s a strategic decision that can accelerate the company’s success.
Anatomy of autonomy for product teams
Team Autonomy is a crucial trait of innovation. To get it right, both the organisation and the teams have to contribute.
My 2020 reading list
These are the books I’ve been reading over 2020, with my three recommendations.
Technology roadmap for round A startup
Technology roadmap of round A stage startup.
Lean Startup and Continuous Delivery for SaaS products
How to apply Lean Startup and Continuos Delivery principles to deliver B2B SaaS products
Server-sent events(SSE) with Ring and Compojure
Use Ring async handler and SSE for real time data firehose
Evolutionary Architecture and Microservices: a real world example
A real world example of Evolutionary Architecture applied to Microservice with a blend of Ruby and Clojure, with Kafka underlying the data flows.
Javascript: how to create partial functions
Currying and partial application functions are very powerful techniques widely adopted by many functional langagues.
Clojure: graceful shutdown of an embedded Jetty instance
How to graceful shutdown an embedded Jetty instance in a Clojure application
Web development in the large
Best practices for fast web development cycle
Flow control in Javascript
Mark Needham recently wrote a blog post on how his team worked around a Javascript asynchronous unwanted behaviour.
They want to iterate over a collection, executes some code for each element of the collection and only when all the collection has been trav...
Introducing node-tail: a NodeJS tail library
In the previous blog post I described the architecture of the firehose we built at Forward with NodeJS.
Building a firehose with NodeJS
In Forward we handle a large real time data stream.
Having already a Hadoop cluster for high latency analysis (mostly reporting), we recently worked on a set of tools that can offer a near real-time view of what’s going on. With this goal in mind I have ...
Javascript testing
Javascript has become in the last year the language for rich web applications, but still it rarely receives the level of attention it deserves.
Italian Agile Day 2009: date announced
Friday, 20th of November 2009, the 6th Italian Agile Day will be held in Bologna.
What has to be ready for the beginning of a project?
The beginning of a project is always a hectic period where several things have to be put in place in order to be able to start the actual development from a solid position.
QA productivity metrics
In a lot of companies the QAs productivityi s measured through the number of defects she raised: the more defects she finds, the harder she works, therefore the better she is.
Local optimization doesn't necessarily mean improvement
Delivering software is a pretty complex activity that requires interaction between people with different skill sets.
One of the cornerstone of Agile Development is continuous improvement, and one of the tool often used to learn and improve is the retrospect...
Acceptance Testing of Flex applications
Acceptance Testing is a fundamental practice: it gives you confidence that your application behaves as expected from the end customer point of view.
Signs of poor communication
Walking in an office and just looking around for 10 minutes is enough to have a feeling of the level of communication in that environment.
Flex: How to achieve proper separation of responsibilities
In a previous post I was discussing on my experience with Flex and one of the highlighted pain points is the extremely poor quality of the available tutorials.
Working with Adobe Flex
RIA is a pretty hot topic in these days; even in ThoughtWorks a lot of discussions are going on (if you have time check fellow ThoughtWorkers posts here, here and here).
Article: Seniority, Respect, Authority and an Agile Team
Here on InfoQ some interesting thoughts around Seniority and Authority in an Agile team.
Article: Patrick Kua on the Agile Coach role
Here a really good article from my friend Patrick Kua on the Agile Coach role.
Ivy: how to download dependencies to different folders
Ivy is a dependency manager that lets you define in a declarative way directly in the build file the dependency of your project.
Integrate Ivy in a dotNet build
I’m currently involved in a .Net shop and I’m working on redesigning the build pipeline (good old CI stuff).
Ivy appeared in our brainstorming sessions as a solution for having a more defined control on the projects dependencies requirement.
Essap 2008
For the third year the European Summer School of Agile Programming(Essap) is a great opportunity to learn more about Agile Methodologies.
Just a bit of confusion...
From a job offer recently received:
Express your business requirements through your code
Last week I was working with a colleague on the implementation of a fairly simple validation of a character: the criteria for validation was that the character had to be lower case or a digit.
EasyMock experience
For the last two weeks I’ve worked with EasyMock and coming from a JMock background it’s easy to make a comparison between the two libraries.
The last "D" in TDD means more than just "Development"
Here some interesting thoughts on TDD.
Java enum as a strategy pattern
I’ve always thought that Java enums can represent a simple but powerful strategy pattern baked into Java.