Developer's black hole
Hi. I’m Flavio Percoco (a.k.a flaper87), and I’m a Software Engineer at Red Hat, where I spend my days working on OpenStack, speaking at conferences. In my spare time I contribute to Rust, write, read, surf, travel, smoke my coffee and drink my pipe.
Rhones-Alpes meetup summary
I love meetups. They are a more intimate moment for local communities to get closer, interact and dive into topics related to the main focus of the meetup group. I organize myself 3 meetups in Milan and I really enjoy the opportunity to get to know local people and learn …
What's coming in Kilo for Glance, Zaqar and Oslo?
As usual, here's a write up of what happened last week during the OpenStack Summit. More than a summary, this post contains the plans we discussed for the next 6 months.
Glance
Lots of things happened in Juno for Glance. Work related to artifacts was done, async workers were implemented …
Non-opinionated software can't exist
Here's a thing. I don't believe there's such a thing like "non opinionated" software and I think we should all be more careful when we communicate what the goals of our projects are. The later may not be new to you, probably not even the former but yet, I keep …
Hiding unnecessary complexity
This post does not represent a strong opinion but something I've been thinking about for a bit. The content could be completely wrong or it could even make some sense. Regardless, I'd like to throw it out there and hopefully gather some feedback from people interested in this topic.
Before …
Mentoring others and yourself
Mentoring is one of the things I enjoy the most doing. I don't consider myself the ultimate expert on things but I've definitely gone through enough things that had led me to become a mentor on different technical areas.
The reason I enjoy this process so much is because it …