Fabrizio Lazzaretti

Talk: Bringing Avro and AsyncAPI Together - Pitfalls and Learnings

This talk explores the practical challenges and learnings from integrating Apache Avro with AsyncAPI for event-driven architectures. Learn about the pitfalls to avoid when combining binary serialization formats with AsyncAPI specifications, schema evolution strategies, and best practices for maintaining consistency across your event-driven systems.

Posted by Fabrizio Lazzaretti on Wednesday, September 24, 2025
Last Modified on Wednesday, October 1, 2025

Talk: How to Design AsyncAPIs in Workshops - The API Product Canvas

A hands-on workshop exploring how to use the API Product Canvas for designing AsyncAPIs. Learn practical techniques for collaborative API design that brings together business stakeholders, architects, and developers to create well-structured event-driven APIs.

Posted by Fabrizio Lazzaretti on Wednesday, September 24, 2025
Last Modified on Wednesday, October 1, 2025

Talk: From Traditional to Real-Time - How We Transform Allianz with Eventing

Discover how Allianz Germany is transforming from traditional batch processing to real-time eventing architecture. Learn about the organizational, technical, and cultural journey of implementing event-driven architecture in a 130-year-old insurance powerhouse.

Posted by Fabrizio Lazzaretti on Tuesday, September 23, 2025
Last Modified on Wednesday, October 1, 2025

Talk: Supercharging Edge Event-Driven Architecture on Kubernetes with Wasm

In this talk, we will explore the transformative potential of WebAssembly (WASM) in enhancing event-driven deployments on Kubernetes. We will examine the current state of WebAssembly in conjunction with Kubernetes, Knative, and KEDA, providing an overview of its capabilities within the CNCF ecosystem. We'll focus on building autoscaling event processing systems with practical examples using Kafka, and discuss the benefits and challenges of this approach.

Posted by Fabrizio Lazzaretti on Friday, September 19, 2025
Last Modified on Friday, September 26, 2025

Talk: Streaming & Eventing for Top Management - How to convince decision makers to go on an architectural transformation journey with streaming and Eventing

Learn how to secure C-suite commitment for the eventing and streaming transformation by showing them the benefits. Link streaming to ROI, growth, and resilience to secure lasting sponsorship and turn streaming into the foundation of business transformation.

Posted by Fabrizio Lazzaretti on Thursday, September 11, 2025
Last Modified on Wednesday, October 1, 2025

Talk: How to design AsyncAPIs in Workshops: The API Product Canvas

Learn how to use the API Product Canvas methodology to design AsyncAPIs in collaborative workshops. This talk, presented with Annegret Junker, demonstrates practical techniques for creating event-driven API designs that align business requirements with technical implementation.

Posted by Fabrizio Lazzaretti on Thursday, July 3, 2025
Last Modified on Wednesday, October 1, 2025