Articles in category: Protected Fridays

Venerdì Protetto | March edition

Shall we play a game? What about a nice Code Challenge?

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4 minute read

During the latest Venerdì Protetto (held on March 8, 2024), we had to change slightly the schedule we’d planned. We had to face a new schedule with very strict time constraints. So we decided to… do something new, and try a Code Challenge!

But how did we do it?

We searched for something already done on the internet, and most suitable for our needs. So we tried the most obvious solution and went for… Advent of Code!

Venerdì Protetto | February edition

What happened in the last Facile.it Venerdì Protetto?

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2 minute read

This page contains the abstracts of the talks held during the latest Venerdì Protetto on February 9, 2024.

Topics:

The overview of Venerdì Protetto is available here.

Venerdì Protetto | January edition

What happened in the last Facile.it Venerdì Protetto?

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2 minute read

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

Topics:

The overview of Venerdì Protetto is available here.

Venerdì Protetto | Christmas edition

What happened in the last Facile.it Venerdì Protetto?

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5 minute read

Architectural Kata

During the latest Venerdì Protetto on December 13th, Facile.it hosted a software architecture exercise called Architecture Kata with some of our lead developers.

Architectural Katas are small-group exercises. A moderator assigns each group a different project that needs development, keeps track of time and acts as the facilitator. To learn about Architectural Katas, see https://nealford.com/katas/.

During the exercise, each team had a meeting to discover additional requirements, discuss possible technology options, and sketch out a rough vision of the solution. Then, each team presented the final solution to the other teams using UML, C4 model, or other diagrams and answered challenging questions about the presented project. Once all projects were presented, each team voted for their favorite project. Following the voting, two winners were selected: