In May 2026 I had the opportunity to speak at PyCon Italia 2026 together with my colleague Igor Saggese. The talk was titled "Chatting with Data, Safely: Role-Based Authorization for Text-to-SQL Agents".
Text-to-SQL agents let users query databases in plain language — which is powerful, but also opens up real security …
read moreEach year I run an end-of-course coding exam for a Big Data Specialist class. The setup had ossified over time: I'd hand-author the exercises, hand-grade dozens of submissions over a weekend, and hand-write per-student feedback reports. It worked, but it didn't scale — and year-over-year consistency drifted because I was the …
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I had the pleasure of being a guest panelist at PyData Milan on March 18, 2026. The event was hosted at TeamSystem's office in Milan.
The panel was about Managing Teams, Stakeholders and Delivery in the GenAI Era. Together with Parvaneh Shafiei (AI Manager at TUI Musement) and Alberto Danese …
read moreIn Building Evolutionary Architectures and Software Architecture: The Hard Parts, Neal Ford and colleagues introduce the concept of fitness functions — automated checks that verify whether a system preserves its desired architectural characteristics over time. The idea is simple: if you care about a quality (latency, coupling, resilience), define an objective …
read moreThe phrase festina lente—“make haste slowly”—was used by the Roman emperor Augustus as a personal motto. Suetonius reports that Augustus repeated it to his generals and administrators as a guiding principle: advance steadily, but never recklessly; act with urgency, but never without reflection. In that sense, the slogan …
read moreI was invited to give a talk at Politecnico di Milano at Osservatorio Big Data. The event took place on November 4th, 2025, and I my talk was "Guida galattica per data product AI-ready", which means "Hitchhiker's guide to AI-ready data products".
I shared the experience we had at TeamSystem …
read moreI just moved the git repo of this blog from an old conda+pip based setup to using uv. On Mac, start by
brew install uv
Then, I initialized the uv project and just imported the dependencies specified in the requirements.txt file.
uv init --python 3.13
uv add …
I've been speaking at Codemotion for the first time in October 2025 thanks to the work done over the last months at TeamSystem. With my colleague Mattia De Leo, we presented our recent work on building AI assistants based on knowledge graphs and large language models. The talk was well …
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I've been for the first time at Big Data London in September 2025. I gave a talk with my colleague Andrea Romeo about a challenging task we faced at TeamSystem. We developed an offloading of thousands of SQL Server tenants via CDC (Change Data Capture) to a data lake via …
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