Backend & Cloud

Backend & Cloud

The stage dedicated to backend development and cloud infrastructure, sponsored by DEVPUNKS, where scalability, performance, and modern architectures take center stage.
Here you’ll find best practices, real-world use cases, and solutions to design robust, distributed systems ready for the future.
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Federico Tonioni
Federico Tonioni
Partner & Technical Sales
Devpunks
24 JUNE
25 JUNE
26 JUNE
I Patagarri - Live Concert I Patagarri - Live Concert
Valerio Lundini & I Vazzanikki - Live Concert Valerio Lundini & I Vazzanikki - Live Concert
Dardust - Live Concert Dardust - Live Concert
Ditonellapiaga - Live Concert Ditonellapiaga - Live Concert
N.A.I.P. - Live Concert N.A.I.P. - Live Concert
Opening Ceremony Opening Ceremony
24 june 11:50 - 12:10
20 min
Companies have experimented heavily with AI, often in a fragmented way, and rightly so. Now it’s time to clean up the drafts and scale things properly. To do this, clear principles are essential to avoid building an internal Black Mirror dystopia. A talk on dev culture, organizations, and collective intelligence.
24 june 12:10 - 12:30
20 min
What if you could access over 400 API services and millions of data points on companies worldwide with the same simplicity as sending a voice message? The CTO of Openapi shows how the Telegram ecosystem can become a conversational interface for hundreds of digital services, transforming a chat into a true control center for accessing data, performing checks, and developing automations. A practical talk on how the union between API marketplaces and instant messaging can redefine access to digital services.
24 june 12:40 - 13:10
30 min
Is it 2025 or 1885? For apps, we are SOLID architects, but infrastructure is still in the Old West, caught between fragile YAML and procedural scripts. Let's get into the DeLorean: let's bring the wisdom of the "Past" into the "Present" of infrastructure through Platform Engineering! We will stop "configuring" and start designing Infrastructure as true Software. You don't need a 1.21-gigawatt lightning bolt to beat technical debt: all it takes is the same care you dedicate to your applications.
24 june 14:30 - 15:00
30 min
The World Cup is the biggest sporting event in the world, and developers everywhere build apps around it to bring fans closer to the action. We wanted to join in, so we built a fun serverless fantasy football app for the tournament, one that handles unpredictable traffic surges every time a game kicks off. Then we asked: what if this wasn’t just for one tournament, or even one sport?We inverted the architecture, extracting a single-event app into an extensible multi-sport engine. You’ll see the production application and the real code behind it: how we isolated per-sport traffic with multi-tenancy patterns, modelled flexible data structures in serverless databases, and used event-driven patterns to survive game-day traffic spikes while keeping the frontend responsive.No abstract theory. We open the repo and show you best practices for building scalable serverless frontends and backends and that hold up when it matters most.
24 june 15:20 - 15:50
30 min
The Cloud was supposed to be a land of flexibility and savings, but for many organizations in Italy, it has turned into a black hole. Why? The truth, unfortunately, lies in structural incompetence. We are not talking about a lack of effort, but rather the organizational capacity to navigate at speeds that differ from technological ones. In this talk, we will examine real-world data and examples from the banking sector to determine the actual costs of these issues: from Monoliths in the Cloud, explaining why migrating legacy problems to new environments doubles costs without adding value, to "Hoped-for" Security and the economic risk of delegating security to individual goodwill rather than automating it on the platform. Finally, we will explore the solution through Platform Engineering: how to create a "software factory" that protects the company from human error and scales in terms of cost-effectiveness rather than price. A thought-provoking session for CEOs and CTOs who want to put an end to the costs of inefficiency and take control of defining the future.
24 june 16:10 - 16:40
30 min
Being a great backend developer isn't enough anymore. The top 1% now works AI-first: leveraging their seniority to lead, while using tools like Claude Code and MCP to execute 10x faster. Join me to see exactly how I do it, in practice.
24 june 17:00 - 17:30
30 min
The way we build E2E tests is changing. We are moving from static test suites and copy-pasted AI snippets toward agentic workflows where autonomous agents can explore applications, generate tests, validate assumptions and repair failures directly inside the development environment. In this talk we will explore how Model Context Protocol (MCP), Playwright Test Agents and runtime telemetry can be combined to create a real agentic QA loop driven by production signals and user behavior. Starting from a simple application, we will build a practical workflow where telemetry and real user flows are transformed into dynamic test specifications consumed by autonomous Playwright agents.
Through live examples we will analyze:- Planner Agents that convert runtime signals and human intent into structured test plans- Generator Agents that produce executable Playwright tests while validating selectors and assertions live- Healer Agents that automatically repair unstable or broken tests- how telemetry and observability data can influence testing priorities- the guardrails needed to safely govern autonomous QA workflows
The focus of the session is not “AI that writes tests faster”, but how QA Engineers can evolve from test script authors into orchestrators of quality systems powered by agentic loops and runtime feedback.