https://marcotroisi.com/Marco Troisi is a founder, fractional CTO and software architect. Through O2A Labs he helps founders make sound technical decisions and build software that serves the business.en-GBSat, 30 Mar 2024 13:00:41 +0000https://marcotroisi.com/what-makes-developers-productive/Sat, 30 Mar 2024 13:00:41 +0000https://marcotroisi.com/what-makes-developers-productive/Silencing the Noise and Getting Stuff Donehttps://marcotroisi.com/simplify-your-microservices-security-these-cloud-services/Mon, 14 Jun 2021 08:07:41 +0000https://marcotroisi.com/simplify-your-microservices-security-these-cloud-services/Less effort, more efficiencyhttps://marcotroisi.com/key-chatbot-success-high-quality-conversations/Thu, 09 Apr 2020 08:07:41 +0000https://marcotroisi.com/key-chatbot-success-high-quality-conversations/Do your chats measure up?https://marcotroisi.com/why-aws/Sun, 28 Jul 2019 08:07:41 +0000https://marcotroisi.com/why-aws/Why I recommend AWS as the default cloud provider.https://marcotroisi.com/how-i-plan-my-week/Tue, 26 Mar 2019 08:07:41 +0000https://marcotroisi.com/how-i-plan-my-week/My simple system for planning and organising my weekly tasks.https://marcotroisi.com/why-unnecessary-variables-are-bad-your-code/Tue, 18 Jul 2017 08:07:41 +0000https://marcotroisi.com/why-unnecessary-variables-are-bad-your-code/Variables shouldn't be used as a shortcut toward readability. Only good code design can give you that.https://marcotroisi.com/basic-abstraction-techniques-what-code-reviewers-need-know/Thu, 01 Jun 2017 11:46:11 +0000https://marcotroisi.com/basic-abstraction-techniques-what-code-reviewers-need-know/As a code reviewer, keeping code readable and maintainable is job one. Learn how to spot overly complex code—and simplify it.https://marcotroisi.com/useless-comments-can-ruin-code-review/Mon, 15 May 2017 07:09:32 +0000https://marcotroisi.com/useless-comments-can-ruin-code-review/Comments can point to inherent problems with code you're reviewing, but many are a waste. Here's how to separate the good from the bad.https://marcotroisi.com/how-run-code-reviews-in-your-workflow/Thu, 20 Apr 2017 08:01:27 +0100https://marcotroisi.com/how-run-code-reviews-in-your-workflow/What's the best time to do code reviews? When considering your development or DevOps workflow.https://marcotroisi.com/8-best-practices-microservices-security/Fri, 17 Feb 2017 08:20:55 +0000https://marcotroisi.com/8-best-practices-microservices-security/With security, reinventing the wheel is never a good idea. These 8 best practices for securing microservices are a good start.https://marcotroisi.com/serverless-what-it-is/Mon, 06 Feb 2017 16:53:45 +0000https://marcotroisi.com/serverless-what-it-is/What Serverless really means, and when should you use it.https://marcotroisi.com/tech-predictions-for-2017/Tue, 03 Jan 2017 01:32:26 +0000https://marcotroisi.com/tech-predictions-for-2017/My predictions for technology in 2017https://marcotroisi.com/object-oriented-programming-is-not-dead/Tue, 22 Nov 2016 08:16:23 +0000https://marcotroisi.com/object-oriented-programming-is-not-dead/Object orientation produces code that is well organized, and easy to understand, test, and refactor. But it's misunderstood.https://marcotroisi.com/when-to-use-microservices-video/Fri, 09 Sep 2016 08:05:54 +0100https://marcotroisi.com/when-to-use-microservices-video/I was recently interviewed on "when to use microservices". Find out what I said!https://marcotroisi.com/right-tools-for-programming/Thu, 07 Jul 2016 20:32:31 +0100https://marcotroisi.com/right-tools-for-programming/You need the best tools to do your job well. Aligning yourself to the industry is the best thing you can do.https://marcotroisi.com/healthy-oop-object-oriented-programming/Mon, 23 May 2016 08:34:57 +0100https://marcotroisi.com/healthy-oop-object-oriented-programming/How to write high quality Object Oriented Codehttps://marcotroisi.com/microservices-wont-improve-your-code-quality/Wed, 16 Dec 2015 00:00:00 +0000https://marcotroisi.com/microservices-wont-improve-your-code-quality/I am very excited about microservices, but they are not going to make my code quality better. That will always be up to the programmer.https://marcotroisi.com/technical-debt-is-not-a-unicorn/Wed, 04 Nov 2015 00:00:00 +0000https://marcotroisi.com/technical-debt-is-not-a-unicorn/Technical debt is not an abstract concept. It has real and serious effects, and can be avoided.https://marcotroisi.com/questions-about-microservices/Thu, 24 Sep 2015 00:00:00 +0000https://marcotroisi.com/questions-about-microservices/A question on how to approach a microservices architecture, authentication, and over-bloated frameworks.https://marcotroisi.com/what-can-we-learn-from-periscope/Fri, 04 Sep 2015 00:00:00 +0000https://marcotroisi.com/what-can-we-learn-from-periscope/I have been using Periscope for a while now, and I am really enjoying it. If you don’t know it, Periscope is Twitter’s new live streaming app, that allows anyone to stream directly from one’s smartphone, and it will notify you as soon as someone you follow is live-streaming. The concept of live …