This page contains the abstracts of the talks held during the latest Venerdì Protetto on January 12, 2024.

Topics:

• AI journey by Yuri Mariotti (Innovazione.AI)
• Helm-based charts by Alessandro Manno (Facile.it)
• Software architecture by Sandro Toma & Alessandro Cagnetti (Solace)

The overview of Venerdì Protetto is available here.

AI journey

From silos to AI enterprise

^{by Yuri Mariotti, Innovazione.AI}

In this talk, we delved into the principles, preliminary steps, and macro-phases of a profound AI transformation in which digital best practices become the foundation of a new type of enterprise, capable of improving in (almost) every aspect thanks to the horizontal and vertical integration of Artificial Intelligence.

Helm-based charts

Introducing Helm-based charts

^{by Alessandro Manno, Facile.it}

In this talk, the Facile.it DXCP team introduced Helm-based charts, a set of Helm library charts for managing Kubernetes applications.

Helm-based charts group common use cases among applications and simplify and expedite the deployment process by providing standardized and reusable components. The key advantages of Helm-based charts are centralized maintenance, uniformity in deployments across projects and teams as well as prevention of effort duplication.

After the introduction, the team presented a demo project aimed at creating project charts using helm-based charts.

Software architecture

Event-driven architecture

^{by Sandro Toma & Alessandro Cagnetti, Solace}

Organizations want to digitally transform themselves to have real-time activities and be responsive to customer needs or market dynamics. In this respect, it has become increasingly important to adopt the Event-driven architecture or EDA approach. At the heart of an event-driven architecture is an event broker. There are four main characteristics, in terms of capability, to consider when choosing an event broker technology:

• Continuous information distribution

• Flexible deployment

• Enterprise-level management and governance

• Ecosystem richness

In this talk, we discussed the concepts we have just defined, going into technical detail on the various aspects of a modern Event-driven architecture, thanks to the experience and different use cases that Solace has gained over many years in this regard.

The archive of all Venerdì Protetto talks is available here.