The 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 …
I 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'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 …
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 …
I am currently reading "AI Engineering" by Chip Huyen and am really enjoying it. I spent some years as data scientist in the past, and now I found some analogies between data science and AI engineering. The analogy is in the way the industry is talking about the discipline and …
“Wanna bet?” triggers us to engage in that third step that we only sometimes get to. Being asked if we are willing to bet money on it makes it much more likely that we will examine our information in a less biased way, be more honest with ourselves about how …
I've created a toy Lakehouse Monitoring in Databricks setup to explore its features and capabilities. The goal is to understand how it works and what benefits it can bring. Here's an overview of what I cover in this post:
I was looking for a resource to get a deeper understanding of MCP (Model Context Protocol). Rather than looking for resources or books, I opted for RTFM. Actually not the MCP manual as I would not have fun reading protocol specs. I took FastMCP and went through the docs. I …
