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:

• How to Setup a toy Lakehouse Monitoring
  • Dashboard
  • Alerts
• Pricing
• My …

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 …

Shallow Work: Noncognitively demanding, logistical-style tasks, often performed while distracted. These efforts tend not to create much new value in the world and are easy to replicate.

Cal Newport gives this definition of how I spend part of my work-time in his Deep Work book. Checking emails, messaging on Teams …

I celebrated 10 years since my graduation trying to giving back somthing I learned about our industry to students. I was invited by Prof. Francesco Calimeri from UniCal to hold a seminar to students at the last year of MSc. in Computer Science and AI. A couple of pictures from …

I had a lot of fun (and work) over the last 6 months working or organizing a conference, Py4AI. The conference was held in Pavia, Italy, on March 16th 2024. The conference was a success, with over 200 attendees and 12 speakers. The conference was organized by a group of …

Why bothering reading a book about design of web APIs when working in data science like I do? I found this book called The Design of Web APIs by Arnaud Lauret and decided to give it a try.

Why reading it

Data science is shifting towards turning models and solutions …

When you work as a data analyst or data scientist (I'll use the terms interchangeably) in a company, you may not be training predictive models every single day. A significant (and often interesting) part of your job is answering business questions via data mining regardless if you do it with …