Author: renato
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Avoiding a cloud wreckage
A cargo ship and a sailboat are different ways to cross the ocean. They both have different strengths and limitations but usually, reach port safely. Unless you swap crews and put the chief engineer in charge of the spinnaker. Cloud providers are not different, they have their own strengths and limitations. Just make sure you…
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Hey, where is my country?
What looks like a simple choice in a drop-down list, can turn into a PR nightmare. Integrating an external mapping service can unintentionally make many of your users unhappy. How can software developers and startups manage location-based services in disputed territories or partially recognized state?
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Serverless Architecture Conference 2020
Looking forward to talk about relational databases on the cloud at the Serverless Architecture Conference. Here in Berlin, next October!
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Dev Around the Sun
Looking forward to be a speaker next week at Dev Around the Sun, a 24-hour international fundraiser organised by the .NET Foundation for the Direct Relief’s Coronavirus Fund. It all starts on May 12 at 2PM CEST, I will be live on May 13 at 7AM CEST. Title of my talk and abstract below. Schedule,…
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TestCon Europe 2020
For the very first time next October I will attend and speak at a testing conference and it will be the biggest software testing conference in Europe, TestCon Europe 2020. I will cover one of my favorite topics, geolocation and geopolitical challenges in the software world: “Hey, Where is My Country? How to Test Your…
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What is a serverless database?
Today I was back for “Devs Lunch Box” at Codemotion, talking about one of my favorite topics in the database world. You can find the recording of my short presentation “What is a serverless database?” here. The slides are available too.
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DevOps Pro Europe 2020
A few devops conferences still go ahead, fully remotely, and it was a pleasure yesterday to be part of DevOps Pro Europe. Here are the slides of my talk “Serverless Databases: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly”.