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Raff Poltronieri

In IT from 1996, Raff Poltronieri started his journey as a system administration learning the basics in the field, 'till now, a Cloud Solutions Architect for one of the most important Italian service integrator offering cloud services, connectivity, and telecommunications. VCP6-DCV, studying for VCAP, he has some other certifications in AWS, Zerto, and Tintri. Actively involved in local VMUG's activities, this year is the third one that he received a vExpert award. Lucky enough for his job being his hobby too.

Posts Featuring Raff Poltronieri

Applications Aren’t an Island

In my last post, I talked about microservices and how their deep connection can offer a quality application. Now, I want to move up a layer. Not only between microservices, but…

Adopting a Distributed Tracing Architecture

In a distributed tracing architecture, we need to define the microservices that work inside it. We also need to distinguish the “component” behavior from the “user” behavior and experience—similar words,…

Customizing Logwatch for Sysadmin Needs

Logwatch is essentially a system log analyzer and reporter. It elaborates logs that are simply collected by syslog. This kind of evolution is simplifying the daily job of modern system…

Log Analysis Tools Review: Syslog, Filtering the Most Relevant Events

Who’s passed more than a weekend going almost blind because something in your didn’t work as it should, and it produced, hopefully, thousands of lines of error messages, almost all…

A New Approach to Cloud-Native Applications and How They Could and Should Replace the Legacy Ones

“In the beginning was the word” … oops, “the cloud.” Long ago “cloud” was a buzzword, especially when it was a cool word that one knew exactly what it meant.…