Luca Pette

A spicy-sweet tomato soup perfect for winter evenings.

Notes from learning Kotlin since March 2022.

A collection of command line related notes.

Notes on Change Data Capture with Debezium and Kafka.

A list of places I recommend to people that have never been to my hometown.

A list of books that actually changed my life

Some of my favorite baroque music pieces.

or, as I like to call it, the better-worse trade-off

or, as I like to call it, a much much faster horse

A brief review of the books I read in 2025.

A brief review of the books I read in 2024.

excerpts from the great derangement

excerpts from Living the asian century

excerpts from Less is More

A brief look at how Kafka Streams and TypeStream compare in the context of event-driven microservices.

A brief review of the books I read in 2023.

A brief history of TypeStream

How I self-published an engineering management book

A good excuse to reflect on the books I read in 2022

A primer to help you write your first Kafka Streams application.

A good excuse to play around with some interesting tools

A discussion on how to approach organising a monorepo.

or how I learned to stop worrying and love monorepo.

How to make useful estimates and stabilise your flow.

What guides my leadership style.

Why I favour small purpose driven modules over big utility ones.

or how I learned to stop worrying and love types.

What guides me after 20 years of writing code for a living.

How to build HTTP endpoints with Kafka Streams Interactive Queries

I have been using Go long enough to form opinions around it

A quick overview of deloominator tech stack

A short introduction to terraform

deloominator is a Go/React application I've been working in the past few months and it's time to open-source it

how I do end-to-end testing of Go CLI applications

My experience running and attending standups.

I love writing.

Why and how I use tmux in 2017

Fourth article of the series "my journey with React and its ecosystem"

Third article of the series "my journey with React and its ecosystem"

Webpack in development and semantic-ui setup

Building an activity tracker with Go, Grafana, and InfluxDB

Trying to make Vim's learning curve more gradual.

First steps with webpack, babel, and yarn

The first time you do something, you learn a lot.

How I found my way into the beauty of classical music without any formal education

Some time ago I wrote about my first experiences with journaling.

I hate the way our industry does the hiring.

I had a nice conversation about one-on-ones with a friend via email and this article wraps it up.

How I think Kanban works and what I like about it

Some random thoughts about programmers and their performance