Mid 2026 recap: coding, conferences, and workshops

📝 Too Long; Didn’t Read We are already at the halfway mark of 2026, and these first six months have been intense. Between coding, conferences, and workshops across Europe, I worked on systems management, green computing, local AI, and software security. This post is a recap of the projects and talks that shaped my February-to-June journey. 🛠️ February to May: deep dive into the Uyuni project For the first four months of this year, my main engineering focus was almost entirely dedicated to the fascinating world of the Uyuni project. If you have not had a chance to work with it yet, Uyuni is an incredibly powerful, completely open-source configuration and infrastructure management solution. It originally started as an evolution of Spacewalk, and today it serves as the upstream community project that feeds directly into SUSE Multi-Linux Manager, which was formerly known as SUSE Manager. ...

June 14, 2026 · Andrea Manzini

Wrapping up GoLab 2024

Intro Since 2015, GoLab is one of the oldest and most renowned conferences about the Go Programming Language ecosystem in the world, attracting a large audience of Gophers from all over the globe. My bad, I forgot to take a picture of the t-shirt 🤷 In recent years, the organizers hosted some of the biggest names in the industry who have shared their insights and experiences with our attendees. ...

November 15, 2024 · Andrea Manzini

Wrapping up ContainerDay 2024

Intro Italian Container Day is an annual conference organized by GRUSP with focus on cloud native / container technologies, devops tools and best practices. The location choosen for this year was a nice Hotel in Bologna, a good choice and also very accessible (thanks to nearby highways and railway connections) part of Italy. The schedule Intro by GrUSP Navigating the CNCF Landscape, one step at a time (Sara Trappetti, Michel Murabito) PlatformOps with Crossplane: how to build your next-gen Kubernetes-based platform (Daniele Monti) Introduction of logs in OpenTelemetry: features and opportunities (Martino Fornasa) My first monitoring with EBPF (Gabriele Santomaggio) Reimagine the Multi-Cluster (Francesco Torta, Guido Ricioppo) .Net Aspire - how to develop and forget about container (Mattia Muraro) Improve your container management with Event-Driven Ansible (Fabio Alessandro Locati) Leaving no Leaf Device Behind: at the Edge Computing frontier with Akri (Luca Barzè) Containers: the last opportunity to make reproducible AI (Marco Franzon) 👋 Conference closing ...

October 11, 2024 · Andrea Manzini

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