Matteo Vaccari

After all these years, still learning how to write good software, and helping organizations do the same.

Current stuff

Things I published

2025 Progettare il software per un feedback migliore: video, slides. Presentation in Italian at the Agile Venture conference, about better feedback from software architecture
2024 Kill the SPA King! presentation in Italian at the Working Software conference, about frontends without JavaScript complications
2024 Test-Driving HTML Templates, an article on martinfowler.com on how to apply TDD when developing server-side rendered web apps
2024 My experiments writing a web app in Go: code, article, article, article
2024 Cross-functional requirements: getting the most important requirements right, presented remotely at facile.it, slides
2024 eXtreme Programming: pratica ormai comune, o idea rivoluzionaria?, presented at XPUG Bergamo. video (in Italian)
2023 Introdurre il Developer Testing nelle organizzazioni, presented at Italian Sofftware Testing Forum, writeup (in Italian) slides video from a later presentation (in Italian)
2023 An AI for a complex boardgame based on Monte Carlo Tree Search, presented at Codemotion. slides, code, video
2023 Demo Front-End: A front-end application to test and explore an API, an article on martinfowler.com on how to make it easy to demo and test APIs
2023 Just the facts a discussion on how to use aggregates effectively in DDD. Article. slides
2021 Accelerate development with Simple Design, video of remote presentation on the ShareIT youtube channel. There is also an Italian version
2018 How I learned to love mocks, an article on Medium about an often overlooked principle.
2017 About the Hexagonal Architecture
2014 Perché è così difficile fare Extreme Programming, (Why is it so hard to do XP) keynote at the Italian Agile Day
2013 Notes on exception handling
2008 Reuse is overrated, a blog post

Archived stuff

Old blog, archived from Wordpress with httrack
Ph.D. Thesis on Calculational Derivation of Circuits (will open a pdf)