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Dall'era dell'architettura monolitica a quella dei container, il panorama tecnologico ha subito trasformazioni radicali. Se i benefici dei container sono indiscutibili, è altrettanto vero che oggi affrontiamo una complessità crescente, con la necessità di gestire e coordinare un numero sempre maggiore di container. Lo strumento perfetto per affrontare questa sfida è sempre lui: #Kubernetes. Scopri tutto ciò che devi sapere nel nostro approfondimento➡️ https://hubs.ly/Q02RDGNy0

Siamo entusiasti di annunciare che il nostro Platform Engineer, Daniele, terrà un talk intitolato: "PlatformOps with Crossplane: How to Build Your Next-gen Kubernetes-based Platform" al ContainerDay 2024. Daniele ci mostrerà come Crossplane semplifica l'integrazione dell'infrastruttura con i cluster Kubernetes, abilitando il self-provisioning indipendente dal cloud provider e favorendo lo shift left. Scopri come abbiamo utilizzato Crossplane per creare una piattaforma self-deployment completa. Inoltre, siamo orgogliosi di essere sponsor di ContainerDay evento organizzato dagli amici del GrUSP. Vedi qui tutta la schedule dell'evento: https://hubs.ly/Q02Rvg_20 📅 Data: 10 ottobre 2024 📍 Location: ContainerDay 2024

Day 3 Highlights from #DrupalConBarcelona Day three at DrupalCon Barcelona was full of insightful sessions and innovations, bringing together passionate Drupal developers, contributors, and enthusiasts. Here’s a recap of standout talks: 🌟 Search API meets Typesense Luca showcased Typesense, an open-source search engine, integrated with Drupal’s Search API for fast, typo-tolerant, AI-powered searches. 🌟 Drupal Recipes Initiative Update Martin Anderson-Clutz and Mark Casias shared progress on the Recipes Initiative, simplifying Drupal adoption by offering pre-packaged solutions for common functionalities like blogs and calendars. 🌟 AI for the French Government David Suissa demonstrated how AI is being integrated into public service websites, showcasing its potential to enhance online services. 🌟 Why Asynchronous Drupal is a Big Deal Alexander Varwijk explored the potential of Drupal as an asynchronous web framework, enabling real-time processing like Node.js. 🌟 Drupal + Modern JS without Going Headless Benjamin Mullins shared practical ways to modernize Drupal’s frontend using modern JavaScript while retaining its content management strength. 🌟 Workspaces Module for Staging Sites Fabian Franz, Andrei Mateescu and Hank VanZile highlighted how the Workspaces module streamlines content staging workflows for large sites. 🌟 70 Reasons for Code Refactoring Marcello Testi and Alexander Farkas detailed their experience upgrading 70 Drupal websites into a unified, scalable system. 🌟 AI Integration in Drupal Ashish Verma discussed how AI-powered features are enhancing Drupal’s adaptive content management systems. 🌟 Access Policy API in Drupal Core Kristiaan Van Den Eynde introduced the new Access Policy API, allowing dynamic, flexible permission systems. 🌟 Supply Chain Security in Drupal Christopher Gervais, Nils Adermann, and Neil Drumm emphasized tools like TUF for securing Drupal’s modules and Composer dependencies. 🎉 The day ended with the exciting announcement of Vienna as the host city for DrupalCon 2025!

I am still processing the incredible last week in #Vienna for the #OpenSourceSummitEurope and Linux Foundation Europe member summit, where we, as SparkFabrik, are proud members. Being part of the Linux Foundation Europe advisory board (LFEAB) is an incredible honor. It's fantastic to be part of such an incredible team of professionals: https://lnkd.in/d__CggfC and have the chance to shape the future of #opensource in #Europe, now as never; the role of open source foundations and communities is crucial to keep up with the current and following policies that are shaping the market, such as the #CRA and #AI act. Another important thing happened: I was granted by OpenSSF with the #GoldenEgg award for my contributions and involvement with the community; it was such an incredible honor. (A dedicated post on this is coming in the next few days.) If you are involved in some ways in #OpenSource and you want to have the chance to collaborate, be involved, stay informed, and extend your network, consider joining the foundation: https://lnkd.in/d_eX6-Qj I cannot tag anyone I've met here, but it was great to have a chat with you, thanks for your time, and I hope to see you again soon 🔜

Are you building a decoupled website or need advanced search capabilities like search-as-you-type and AI integration? Typesense may be the right solution for you; it's flexible, powerful, open source, and integrated with Drupal (using the Search API module). Here are the slides of my presentation at DrupalCon Barcelona 2024 SparkFabrik DrupalCon Europe Typesense

Day two of #DrupalConBarcelona was filled with inspiring moments and standout sessions that truly left an impression! 🌟 Mónica Rikić Fusté took us on a fascinating journey into the world of assistive robotics, where she shared how her artistic replica of an industrial robot shows that creativity and tech innovation can go hand in hand. Her work highlighted how artistic research can fuel real, transformative technological breakthroughs. 🌟 Theodor Ragnar Gislason also captivated the audience with his mission to democratize cybersecurity. His initiative aims to make threat detection and responsible disclosure accessible to all, while his admiration for the longevity of the Drupal community and its commitment to best practices was palpable. But Theodor and his team didn’t just talk the talk—they took action! They scanned all the contributed modules in Drupal's GitLab repo (about 38K modules and 500GB of data!) to hunt for vulnerabilities. The results? Over 80% of modules were secure—a huge win for Drupal’s Security Team! And fun fact: when they ran a similar test on WordPress plugins... let’s just say the results didn’t quite compare! 😉 Another session that sparked curiosity was Tassos Koutlas Koutlas’ "Let’s Burst Our Bubble: Projects, Products, Estimates, and Forecasts." This session offered refreshing insights on organizational and communication challenges developers face, and how to tackle them head-on, especially when dealing with client contracts. In the morning, Gábor Hojtsy and Tim Plunkett gave us an exciting deep dive into the present and future of Drupal core and Starshot, providing valuable insights on where Drupal is headed. And of course, a special mention to our very own Luca Lusso whose session "Leveraging the Command Pattern: Enhancing Drupal with Symfony Messenger" piqued the interest of many. Luca showcased how the Symfony Messenger can take things further than the current Drupal Queue API—exciting stuff for all the developers in the room! Here’s a quick list (in random order) of the day’s most interesting sessions: - Fast Tracks to Compensation: Revolutionising Rail Claims with Drupal and AI - A Case Study - Let’s Burst Our Bubble: Projects, Products, Estimates, and Forecasts - Building the Future of Drupal: 11, 12, and Starshot - Coding Beyond Functionality: Altering Technologies Through Artistic Research - Drupal AI: Leading the Web's New Golden Era - The AI Module and Starshot - Software Supply Chain Security Deep Dive - Leveraging the Command Pattern: Enhancing Drupal with Symfony Messenger

The first day of DrupalCon Europe Barcelona 2024 has started with the fortieth iteration of one of the most awaited events on the schedule: the DriesNote. The main topic was, of course, Starshot, or as we'll call it from now on, Drupal CMS. It's been a few years since a DriesNote was so exciting to follow. Dries showed us all the amazing work that has been accomplished in just four months (the Starshot project was launched at DrupalCon Portland in May 2024). The new version of Drupal will be accessible to non-coder users and have AI baked in. Using a chat, we can now interact with a growing set of agents capable of performing tasks for us, interacting with the Drupal Core APIs. It's impressive. One crucial point presented by Dries is that humans will always be kept in the loop. All the new stuff presented by Dries is already available to use; it is just not production-ready yet. The community has another four months to sharpen and complete the first version of Drupal CMS, which will be released on January 15. DriesNote is available on YouTube here: https://lnkd.in/dBRYAfV7. During the rest of the day, the SparkFabrik team followed some sessions on different topics: - Gander in practice: start monitoring your site's performance today - Working together: DDEV on Gitpod and GitHub Codespaces - Experience Builder Initiative - Let's try to understand Typed Data, finally... - Migrations at scale: Migrating sites with millions of objects - AI with Drupal - Using LLM technology is easy, but how do you actually build useful applications? - Innovation in action: Building a flexible and scalable Drupal platform for managing 60+ sites on Google Kubernetes Engine - Drupal's Bundle Classes to Better Code Ultimately, it was a very good first day; we learned some new things and talked with other developers about interesting topics. We ended the day in front of a delicious paella to get ready for day 2. #DrupalCon2024

Siamo orgogliosi Gold Sponsor di ContainerDay 2024 organizzata dagli amici del GrUSP Containerday è la principale conferenza italiana dedicata esclusivamente alle tecnologie di containerizzazione e virtualizzazione ed alle buone pratiche ad esse associate. Docker, Kubernetes e le tecnologie di virtualizzazione hanno radicalmente cambiato il mondo delle infrastrutture IT. Alla conferenza saranno presentate le best practices, le tecnologie innovative e gli strumenti per poter gestire e far evolvere una infrastruttura IT moderna 🌐👥 La conferenza si svolgerà a Bologna (ed online) Giovedì 10 Ottobre 2024. in modalità ibrida, con la possibilità di partecipare sia in presenza sia online (ma noi vi consigliamo vivamente di venire fisicamente per incontrare il resto della community). Per inciso, in agenda c'è anche il nostro Daniele Monti, alle 10:20 con il talk "PlatformOps with Crossplane: how to build your next-gen Kubernetes-based platform". https://hubs.ly/Q02QTW1p0 Vi aspettiamo!

🔧 Caso di studio: Santagostino & SparkFabrik - Serverless e Cloud Native ⚙️ Siamo felici di condividere un progetto di grande valore che abbiamo portato avanti con Santagostino, in collaborazione con gli Osservatori Digital Innovation del Politecnico di Milano. Santagostino, una rete di poliambulatori specialistici, si è affidata a noi per risolvere alcune delle sfide legate alla complessità dei loro sistemi legacy. In particolare, abbiamo affrontato: - L'elevata dipendenza tra i sistemi software - La duplicazione di funzionalità chiave (es. invio SMS, mail) - I processi eseguiti in modalità sincrona o tramite cron batch, con distribuzione su vari server Con l'introduzione di un layer di servizi cloud native e serverless, abbiamo contribuito a ridurre drasticamente queste inefficienze. Il nuovo middleware che abbiamo progettato ha centralizzato la comunicazione tra i vari servizi, riducendo i tempi di manutenzione dell’infrastruttura e semplificando l’integrazione con un sistema di circuit breaking e cache unificato. Tra i vantaggi principali: - Riduzione dei tempi di setup infrastrutturale - Scalabilità automatica e gestione del traffico utenti - Sviluppo più rapido di soluzioni di business - Uniformità nell’esperienza developer, con un catalogo di componenti riutilizzabili che facilita lo sviluppo e la manutenzione Un aspetto chiave del progetto è stato il focus sulla sicurezza. Abbiamo implementato un sistema centralizzato di audit log, garantendo una tracciabilità efficace e la protezione dei dati dei pazienti, oltre a migliorare la conformità al GDPR. Un ringraziamento speciale va a Saverio Menin di Santagostino per la collaborazione continua e il contributo essenziale al successo di questo progetto, e a Francesco Benigno, Software Architect e Team Leader di SparkFabrik, che ha presentato la sessione insieme a Saverio e ha guidato la progettazione e l'implementazione di queste soluzioni. #CloudNative #Serverless #Microservices #CloudTransformation

🌍 Linux Foundation Europe Member Summit - Day 4 Recap! The final day of the summit brought inspiring conversations and crucial initiatives that highlight the importance of collaboration and innovation in open-source development across Europe. 🚀 1️⃣ Open Source AI Discussions: A focus on ensuring we get open-source AI right, with emphasis on transparency, ethics, and responsibility in AI development. 2️⃣ Partnerships in Open Source: An insightful session exploring how not all partnerships are equal, highlighting the importance of creating balanced, impactful collaborations. 3️⃣ Generative AI Commons: With over 200 active members, the Generative AI Commons initiative is shaping the future of AI through responsible and open science. A strong community-driven effort with 80+ organizations on board. 4️⃣ The NeoNephos Foundation: Announced as a crucial player in cloud infrastructure, focusing on creating a multi-provider Cloud-Edge continuum to break the dependency on single providers. This project will unlock new opportunities in digital autonomy across Europe. 5️⃣ OpenWallet and Cloud Infrastructure: The OpenWallet Foundation is developing neutral, multi-stakeholder governance for digital public goods, paving the way for inclusive and open-source financial systems. 6️⃣ Apeiro Project: An exciting initiative from SAP focusing on building an open-source toolbox for cloud infrastructure, providing autonomy and cloud-native portability. 🌐 To top it all off, we were reminded that next year's Open Source Summit Europe will take place in beautiful Amsterdam—mark your calendars for August 25-27, 2025! ✈️ Once again, SparkFabrik’s commitment to contributing to these discussions, led by our CTO Paolo Mainardi, underscores our mission to drive the future of open-source forward.