Baroque music
Some of my favorite baroque music pieces.
Luca Pette
Writing about software development, management, and learning
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Napoli
A list of places I recommend to people that have never been to my hometown.
Change Data Capture
Notes on Change Data Capture with Debezium and Kafka.
CLI
A collection of command line related notes. Mostly things I can't quite remember.
Kotlin
Notes from learning Kotlin since March 2022.
Tomato Soup
A spicy-sweet tomato soup perfect for winter evenings.
Comprehension Debt
or, as I like to call it, the better-worse trade-off
Programming in the age of AI
or, as I like to call it, a much much faster horse
The Books I Read in 2025
A brief review of the books I read in 2025.
The Books I Read in 2024
A brief review of the books I read in 2024.
A Comparative Analysis of Kafka Streams and TypeStream
A brief look at how Kafka Streams and TypeStream compare in the context of event-driven microservices.
Less is More
excerpts from Less is More
Living the asian century
excerpts from Living the asian century
The great derangement
excerpts from the great derangement
The Books I Read in 2023
A brief review of the books I read in 2023.
They are called streaming data "pipe"lines... right?
A brief history of TypeStream
Leading Developers
How I self-published an engineering management book
The Books I Read in 2022
A good excuse to reflect on the books I read in 2022
Getting Started With Kafka Streams
A primer to help you write your first Kafka Streams application.
Improving Fakedata Performance for Fun
A good excuse to play around with some interesting tools
How to structure a monorepo
A discussion on how to approach organising a monorepo.
The Appeal of Monorepo
or how I learned to stop worrying and love monorepo.
Estimation Done Right
How to make useful estimates and stabilise your flow.
My Engineering Management Values
What guides my leadership style.
Utility Modules Aren't Useful
Why I favour small purpose driven modules over big utility ones.
The Appeal of Static Typing
or how I learned to stop worrying and love types.
My Programming Principles
What guides me after 20 years of writing code for a living.
HTTP endpoints with Kafka Streams Interactive Queries
How to build HTTP endpoints with Kafka Streams Interactive Queries
My experience with Go
I have been using Go long enough to form opinions around it
deloominator tech stack
A quick overview of deloominator tech stack
terraform and GitHub labels
A short introduction to terraform
deloominator: a data visualization tool for SQL users
deloominator is a Go/React application I've been working in the past few months and it's time to open-source it
Writing integration tests for a Go CLI application
how I do end-to-end testing of Go CLI applications
My experience with standups
My experience running and attending standups. What I like and what I don't like about them.
On writing
I love writing. And I love writing about it.
Tmux and I in 2017
Why and how I use tmux in 2017
Using Flow and jest
Fourth article of the series "my journey with React and its ecosystem"
First steps with React props and state
Third article of the series "my journey with React and its ecosystem"
Webpack in development and semantic-ui setup
Webpack in development and semantic-ui setup
Building an activity tracker with Go, Grafana, and InfluxDB
Building an activity tracker with Go, Grafana, and InfluxDB
Getting started with Vim
Trying to make Vim's learning curve more gradual.
First steps with webpack, babel, and yarn
First steps with webpack, babel, and yarn
All I have done wrong running a product team
The first time you do something, you learn a lot. It's time to share that.
An illiterate guide to classical music
How I found my way into the beauty of classical music without any formal education
The real power of journaling
Some time ago I wrote about my first experiences with journaling. Now, it's more than one year I'm doing it and it changed everything
A few words about hiring
I hate the way our industry does the hiring. It's time to talk about it.
Some notes about one-on-ones
I had a nice conversation about one-on-ones with a friend via email and this article wraps it up.
My experience with Kanban
How I think Kanban works and what I like about it
What I think about when programmers talk about speed
Some random thoughts about programmers and their performance
What I'm learning with journaling
thoughts about journaling