NOTE: those are just early impressions on a very promising product that I am very happy to see available and I am sure it will get better over time compared to what it is today. Today I spent some time playing with EKS (Elastic Container Service for Kubernetes), the newly announced Kubernetes service from AWS and I decided to write some notes down, not only for my team, but for whoever is interested in knowing more details on EKS.…

Yesterday night I went to see Erlend Øye live in Berlin. He did a great show, during which he played with some young musicians from the south of Italy where he is living (Syracuse). Some of them were really new to playing live: Erlend told us that one of them did not play ever live before the start of the tour and another one literally said “I wrote this song when I decided to start writing songs… last December”.…

Marco era un pezzo di me. Marco mi ha introdotto a Linux, prima che fosse davvero cool, quando Ubuntu non esisteva. Ricordo ancora i miei primi sguardi a Red Hat con lui. Se non fosse per lui, probabilmente starei ancora usando Windows 98 o qualcosa del genere. Con Marco ho condiviso una casa e dei momenti unici quando vivevamo entrambi a Milano. Con Marco, ho giocato a fare l’adolescente, il maturo, il nerd, il birraio.…

At my previous job, I was part of the original team that tried several of the existing tools to setup a vanilla Kubernetes cluster on AWS. We tried kube-aws, kops and looked at others and decided that none of them was perfect for us. Many had shortcomings, mostly because of some limitations or bugs which were perfectly natural given the state of the Kubernetes project itself. We decided then to start from kube-aws, customized the configuration and never really looked back from there.…

In the last month and a half I wrote 3 blogposts that I did not publish and that are still in my pipeline. Some of them are partially ready, some undone, but it’s their content their problem. Most of them are non technical and related to things I think, I saw and thoughts on my career and life as an engineer. Over time and due to a couple of episodes that happened this year to me and to someone close to me, I got much less comfortable in sharing those thoughts freely.…

NOTE: this post was edited after the original writing, mostly to fix syntax and to do minor rewording. The content is the same as originally intended. I am writing this blog post in an hotel room in San Francisco with my phone since I don’t have a computer with me. This is day 7 of my trip without a computer. The only real tech things I have with me are my camera and my phone which I’m mostly using as navigator and to check restaurants recommendations.…

Some days ago I started writing a blog post on Go tracing, but it was really taking too long. I had in mind to write a very detailed post, with pictures and examples and to do this incrementally, but then I saw this great blogpost which is essentially what I wanted to write. To add something to the content of that blogpost, instead of finishing mine, I decided to just write a super small example with some easy to use commands in this repo.…

If you don’t know me, I am an Italian who just moved to Germany who lived in France for a while in the past. While this might just be confusing, it’s not really important now. The relevant part is that I had to move across Europe and I had to deal with a lot of bureaucracy in the different countries I lived in. Each of the countries I lived is characterised by complex laws and rules to follow related to immigration, taxes, social security, etc.…

In these days, in Italy, a strong debate is taking place, dealing with same sex marriage. Same sex couples are still not allowed to register themselves in Italy, while this is possible in most of the European countries. The worst part of what is happening is the “family day”. Somehow people against same sex couples, want to remark once again that there’s only one type of family, the heterosexual, Christian one.…

Yesterday, Parse announced that is shutting down. I don’t know Parse closely enough to say if this move is surprising or somehow expected, but I’m sure that there are many developers our there that are very sad today since in less then a year they will have to migrate their apps to a different service or backend. While some years ago everyone was saying that Backends as a Service would be the future of computing and a game changing way to prototype apps, today it’s clear that this is not true.…