Field CTO & Head of DevEx, Aiven
Based in Verona, Italy
Francesco comes from Verona, Italy and works as a Field CTO & AI Lead at Aiven. With his many years of experience as a data engineer, he has stories to tell and advice for data-wranglers everywhere. Francesco loves sharing knowledge with others as a speaker and writer, and is on a mission to defend the world from bad Italian food!
Superpowers
Kafka
Flink
Stream processing
PostgreSQL
Databases
Analytics
Data pipelines
Data security
Data governance
Data observability
Machine learning
Public speaking
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Current 2024
Whether you’re directly managing Apache Kafka or it’s part of your data infrastructure, this talk will give you an idea of the security threats involved and how to be ready for them.
Sep 17, 2024 - Sep 18, 2024
Kafka Summit London
Whether you’re directly managing Apache Kafka or it’s part of your data infrastructure, this talk will give you an idea of the security threats involved and how to be ready for them.
Mar 19, 2024 - Mar 20, 2024
CloudGen
Whether you’re directly managing Apache Kafka or it’s part of your data infrastructure, this talk will give you an idea of the security threats involved and how to be ready for them.
Feb 16, 2024
PGConf EU
As AI continues to become a bigger part of every company, this session will help you to make sure PostgreSQL and your implementations remain relevant on this journey.
Dec 12, 2023 - Dec 15, 2023
Big Data Conference
Whether you’re directly managing Apache Kafka or it’s part of your data infrastructure, this talk will give you an idea of the security threats involved and how to be ready for them!
Nov 22, 2023 - Nov 24, 2023
Current 2023
If you’re thinking about migrating from batch to streaming, but are afraid of any disruption the process may cause in your organization, this session is for you!
Sep 26, 2023 - Sep 27, 2023
pgDay Paris 2023
This session is recommended for anyone who deeply cares about their (string) data quality.
Mar 23, 2023
PGConf EU 2022
This talk is about the hidden treasure stored in the metadata: starting by defining use cases, we'll then focus on how we can design a system, based on PostgreSQL and some graph theory, that collects, merges and exposes metadata coming from a variety of tools.
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Oct 25, 2022 - Oct 28, 2022
Aug 6, 2024
BigQuery continuous queries enable the reverse ETL pattern. You can now stream your enriched data from BigQuery back to the operational data layer using Aiven for Apache Kafka®.
Jobin & Francesco
Mar 21, 2023
We’re told that Apache Kafka® preserves message ordering per topic/partition, but how true is that, and how close can we come to making it true?
Francesco
Mar 2, 2023
SQL, integrations, autocompletion, data preview and more - Aiven’s bringing good things to your Apache Flink® workflow
Filip & Francesco
Dec 8, 2022
Making robust and future-proof decisions about your data setup can be complex. The SOFT methodology is here to guide you to the right choices for your needs.
Francesco
Nov 29, 2022
Apache Kafka® Connect configuration might seem like dark magic at times. Read on to learn a few tips and take your developer experience to the next level.
Francesco
Nov 8, 2022
Parsing semi-structured dataset in a relational database seems scary. Read on for how PostgreSQL® JSON functions allow your SQL queries to work with json and jsonb data.
Francesco
Nov 3, 2022
PG Conf EU 2022 was a blast! Our team wrote this recap highlighting our favorite sessions and trends in the PostgreSQL® community we observed.
Ronan & Francesco & Ana
Oct 14, 2022
Current 2022 was this year's successor to the Kafka Summit series of conferences. Read on to find out what our Aiven colleagues thought of this new event (hint: it was very good!).
Francesco & Ben & Olena & Markos
Aug 4, 2022
As the number of data assets and related technologies grows, figuring out how they relate gets harder. Find out about a new tool that can give useful insights.
Francesco