Running Out of Ideas - A Developer's Blog

I ran into Let's Encrypt project few months ago, after reading on the website of an independent radio that they finally solved their own issues with SSL by creating a Valid Certificate using Let's Encrypt . At the beginning I imagined that they would have created something like self-signed certificates or something that, at the end, wouldn't be valid completely or at least not useful without user's validation. Surprisingly this was not the case, they either have a valid certificate and the browser used to like it too. I was curious and I wanted to go in deep with this. The opportunity fell from the sky , when after revoking a certificate and rekeying the same for another domain, I had to leave a domain with an invalid and revoked certificate. This shouldn't represent a problem, since the domain was hosting a website quite outdated. However I forgot that someone was still embedding iframes from that domain, moreover they neither can modify easily tons

Last week I have been at the great yearly appointment here in Turin: Cloud Conf '17 . This event, now at its 5 th edition, always gives an overview of on-going projects and state-of-the-art technologies. But never like this year, the organizers Gabriele Mittica ( @GabrieleMittica ) and Walter Dal Mut ( @walterdalmut ), with their company Corley Cloud ( @CorleyCloud ) succeeded in mixing such a variety of topics for talks, that really allowed us to touch where technology is and where it is going. From Microservices to Serverless   For me it was very interesting to comprehend that few years ago we started massively splitting architecture of backend applications from legacy servers into small pieces of microservices communicating via API. Nowadays the same it's happening with the applications themselves; the serverless paradigm is changing the overview of application development in the cloud environment. You now will split an application into a large numbe