Fabio Nappi

How Bending Spoons, a company that most people may have never heard of, spent over $1 billion acquiring companies like Evernote and Meetup. 💰 "We normally give teams the freedom to choose what they think is the most effective approach. We give them principles and help them shape their responsibilities." - Francesco Mancone. At Trustshoring, we love examining and sharing insights on how multi-product SaaS organizations maintain their growth and team structure as they scale into new segments and acquire or develop new products. ⭐ What development practices remain standard across all teams? How do they structure their tech and product teams? What practices change and adapt? In this week's episode of The Pragmatic Engineer, Gergely Orosz sat down with three key figures from the Italy-based startup: Co-founder and CEO Luca Ferrari, CTO Francesco Mancone, and Evernote's product lead Federico Simionato. (The link to this very insightful episode is in the comment below) #saas #saasgrowth #scaling #enterprisesaas #founders #acquisitions #tech #softwaredevelopment

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Interesting article about the future of electric vehicles and chargers. #FoodforThought

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"With Data you'll deeply modernize the backend, not just the frontend!" This is the main concept of this on-stage presentation of Data by smeup Lab, the #engineeringplatform we have been building since the last 20 years on #ibmi #ibmpower It is also a #modernization tool for other #rpg applications, but not the usual modernization. This is the only real modernization!

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Our biggest competitor, WeTransfer, has been acquired by the Italian tech company, Bending Spoons. Wetransfer was, in all honesty, a source of inspiration for us when we were setting up SendGB. However, from the very beginning, we pondered on how we could provide a better service than them and worked towards that. Today, as SendGB, we offer more services in file sharing compared to Wetransfer. In recent years, Wetransfer has deviated from its core business of file sharing and transformed into a content service, imposing restrictions on the free file sharing it offers to its users. The excitement of some startups reflects the enthusiasm of their founders. When the founders step away from the business, the startup may lose its charm. As SendGB 👑 , we are uncertain about the direction Wetransfer will take. However, we must thank its founders for the value they have added to people's lives through file sharing. Thanks to the founders of WeTransfer and all its employees to date. 👏 https://lnkd.in/d2YzDby8 #SendGB #wetransfer #filesharing #bendingspoons #acquisition

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In the last month me and my colleague Chenghao have participated this hackathon organised by Poligrafico e Zecca dello Stato Italiano and Codemotion, where the main focus is to address a significant and challenging issue: finding innovative solutions to combat counterfeiting of Made in Italy products. We decided to call our team and solution “MII Guardian”, a paronomastic way to express both “the guardian of Made In Italy” and “ME as the guardian” protecting it. Our proposed solution is horizontal and applicable to any types of products. It involves: - AI and computer vision techniques to analyse images taken by an end user and get compared with image references defined by the manufacturer - Blockchain technology ensures product traceability, and once information is recorded, it becomes immutable, safeguarding the product’s history - Microservices architecture enables scalability and seamless integration with third parties through APIs - Gamification and rewarding system where all the parties involved get benefits. This creates a social network that aims to fight the counterfeits - other aspects like utilizing GS1 Digital Links, accessible macro lenses for greater image details, intuitive and responsive UI for the users, dashboards for brand monitoring and anomaly detections. The time was limited and we were working in those endless nights and during weekends. We were simultaneously brainstorming innovative ideas and fixing bugs for the prototype. We competed against 30 other teams, and we have been selected to be in the top 3. Today, we participated in the final event at Rome to discover the winner. A lot of knowledge and work have been put into our solution making it unique and effective. Yet, this wasn’t enough to win the challenge. So big congratulations to team CheckMate for winning the competition. I also want to thank Giuseppe, Eros, and other specialists for being great mentors and for providing us with valuable information. What else can I say? What a journey. We learned a lot, met new great people, had a great time and I am sure that all of these will make me a better version of myself and get prepared for the next challenge! :)

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As a developer who benefits from using buildo's Internal Developer Platform, I am fascinated by how its internals work. This blog post by Sandro Tajè offers some interesting insights! One feature I love is the ability to get app secrets directly from 1Password into the platform!

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🌟 Our sponsor OMNYS - Thinking smart, solving fast brings you a stellar session at AWS Community Day Italy 2024! Luca Fiscato and Manuel Vianello present: "Service Catalog and Step Functions, may the Force be with you!" Ready to master the art of application workflow management? Join us for an epic journey through a real-world cloud migration and refactoring saga! 🚀 What you'll discover: • Leveraging Service Catalog + Step Functions for custom workflow engines • Architecting decoupled microservices with configurable scaling • Enabling cloud-agnostic workflow task development • Automating build/deploy/undeploy/healthcheck/rollback procedures • Maintaining and restoring previous workflow task versions effortlessly • Breaking free from specific tools or languages This session is perfect for architects, developers, and anyone involved in complex system migrations or workflow management. 💼 About OMNYS - Thinking smart, solving fast: As a proud sponsor of AWS Community Day Italy, Omnys brings cutting-edge expertise in cloud solutions and workflow management. Don't miss this chance to learn from their real-world experiences! 📅 Date: September 27, 2024 📍 Location: Rome, Italy ⚠️ ALERT: Tickets are nearly gone! Don't miss this opportunity to revolutionize your workflow management. Secure your spot now: https://lnkd.in/dKVsErwJ #AWSCommunity #AWSCommunityDay #WorkflowManagement #ServiceCatalog #StepFunctions #CloudMigration #Omnys

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🚀🚀🚀 𝐍𝐞𝐰 𝐏𝐨𝐬𝐭 𝐀𝐥𝐞𝐫𝐭 🚀🚀🚀 𝐈𝐦𝐩𝐥𝐞𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐆𝐫𝐚𝐩𝐡𝐐𝐋 𝐢𝐧 .𝐍𝐄𝐓 𝐂𝐨𝐫𝐞 Dive into advanced API development with our latest article on GraphQL in .NET Core. Learn how to set up a GraphQL server using HotChocolate, define queries and mutations, and efficiently manage data. Discover how GraphQL can enhance your application's performance and flexibility with real-world examples from a banking application. https://bit.ly/3XQuqtf #GraphQL #DotNetCore #APIDevelopment #HotChocolate #SoftwareArchitecture

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#NextJS #TailwindCSS #ShadCN #DragAndDrop #CodeExport #WebDevelopment #BuildSpace #Hackathons #NomadLife #ReactFramework Build @nextjs, @tailwindcss & @shadcn websites with drag and drop.

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Ilya Sutskever, ex Chief Scientist di OpenAI, ha dato a John Carmack una lista di 27 paper dicendogli👇🏽 ‘Se impari veramente tutto questo, saprai il 90% di ciò che conta oggi nell’AI.’ Ecco la lista: 1. The Annotated Transformer 2. The First Law of Complexodynamics 3. The Unreasonable Effectiveness of RNNs 4. Understanding LSTM Networks 5. Recurrent Neural Network Regularization 6. Keeping Neural Networks Simple by Minimizing the Description Length of the Weights 7. Pointer Networks 8. ImageNet Classification with Deep CNNs 9. Order Matters: Sequence to sequence for sets 10. GPipe: Efficient Training of Giant Neural Networks using Pipeline Parallelism 11. Deep Residual Learning for Image Recognition 12. Multi-Scale Context Aggregation by Dilated Convolutions 13. Neural Quantum Chemistry 14. Attention Is All You Need 15. Neural Machine Translation by Jointly Learning to Align and Translate 16. Identity Mappings in Deep Residual Networks 17. A Simple NN Module for Relational Reasoning 18. Variational Lossy Autoencoder 19. Relational RNNs 20. Quantifying the Rise and Fall of Complexity in Closed Systems: The Coffee Automaton 21. Neural Turing Machines 22. Deep Speech 2: End-to-End Speech Recognition in English and Mandarin 23. Scaling Laws for Neural LMs 24. A Tutorial Introduction to the Minimum Description Length Principle 25. Machine Super Intelligence Dissertation 26. Kolmogorov Complexity 27. CS231n Convolutional Neural Networks for Visual Recognition Puoi trovare tutto in questa cartella: https://lnkd.in/drD_-tMk #ai #education #openai

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Last week, two new AI image generators were launched: Imagen 3 by Google and Grok 2 by Elon Musk. But the real surprise was Flux! Created by Black Forest Labs, Flux has been hailed by many as the “mid-journey killer” and the next big replacement for Stable Diffusion, thanks to its ability to generate images so realistic they seem almost dangerous. And yes, it’s the model behind Grok’s images. Google DeepMind even published a paper this month on how generative AI can be abused, and surprisingly, the real danger isn’t in generating intimate images, but in impersonation. And Flux is particularly good at that. We created the attached photo with Flux, what do you think? Goodbye to 8-fingered hands generated by competitor models.

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Thanks to the amazing work done by Egon Ferri and Domenico Cinque, a few days ago we published Vegeta Super Sayan, our first open source AIDE team's project for Immobiliare Labs GitHub organization! Using the Vegeta load testing framework as its core, Vegeta Super Sayan empowers Developers/ML Engineers/Data Scientist to easily simulate real-world traffic scenarios, identify performance bottlenecks, and optimize their web services and APIs for enhanced scalability and reliability. Through its user-friendly interface, it's possible to explore different request rates to find the optimal performance point or identify breaking points where the service starts to degrade under load. What are you waiting for?   Check the project on GitHub and leave us feedback and/or issues to improve it!  https://lnkd.in/d_ucpNxq  #OpenSource #LoadTesting #SoftwareDevelopment #microservices

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Come la vedete voi? C'è un post su #HackerNews che mi ha fatto pensare... Hi. I've been in the profession (SW Eng) for about 18 yrs now. A few years from my 50s. Didn't go the managerial route. Stayed technical. My current gig is in a very difficult and complex project written in C. Been there for 2 yrs now and I'm afraid that due to the ancient tech stack and despite being a good engineer I'm loosing my marketability. After enduring bad behavior for nth time (yeah it's a toxic workplace) I decided I had enough and did a round of applications. Mostly for backend positions and mostly for golang positions. I don't have prod xp with golang but it's close to C and every time I've used it it seemed ok. But the problem is that I'm either being ignored or skipped over. All jobs are for seniors in the _specific_tech_stack_. Other positions I've applied for and got no response whatsoever are architects, tech managers and the like. Granded, this regards a turd job market (EU/Greece) but still that's where I am at. Am I toasted for good? I mean, nearing my 50s with my most recent gig writing "C" on it is as good as declaring my career over? Link nel primo commento...

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