Davide Ferrari

I recently started working on a project that aims to automate the research and drafting process behind a cloud assessment document. If you’ve never had to write one, a cloud assessment is one of those tasks that is as tedious as it is time-consuming. You get access to a client’s AWS accounts and start orienting yourself, understanding the organization structure, mapping cost allocation, figuring out who owns what. You interview the client....

The File System API is so underrated, why isn’t anyone building stuff with it? There’s a whole bunch of small utility apps, the kind of freeware you’d normally download and install just to use once or twice, that could just live in your browser instead. Claude and I threw together a couple examples this afternoon: a bulk file renamer and a swipe-to-delete photo curator (the usual Tinder like photo organizer). You can find both on smoltools, my collection of quick utilities I build for myself and throw online....

I joined Instagram on May 7, 2011. Back then, it was a simple place. The good old days of slapping a “Nashville” filter on a blurry photo of your sandwich, posting it with a handful of hashtags, and scrolling through a chronological feed of square photos from a few friends are long over. Fast forward to today, and what’s left is a wasteland of sponsored posts, brain-washing short-form content, brainrot memes, and maybe, if you’re lucky, at the end of it all, a friend’s post from their trip....

Just a few months ago, AWS felt like a distant, complex universe. Today, I’m writing this having just presented our very own cloud-native video platform, Sunomi, at the AWS User Group in Milan. The journey from a university project to standing on the stage has been an incredible crash course in cloud computing, teamwork, and problem-solving. It all started last September when Andrea, Federico, Alessandro, and I, fellow Computer Engineering Master’s students at the University of Pavia, enrolled in the Cloud Computing course....

In the summer of 2020 I was wrapping up my first year of university. Like most of my classmates, I was still adjusting to this new environment and trying to find my way through classes and exams. It was a weird time—everything felt new, and on top of that, the world was in the middle of a global pandemic. I first heard about Maxidata through word of mouth—a friend mentioned the company was looking for a software developer....