Martino Fornasa

Cloud-native and DevOps independent consultant and trainer.
Organizer of the UseCaseConf conference. Created eventitech.it.

April 30, 2026
I tried Claude Design
I tried Claude Design. For someone like me, totally hopeless at design and graphics, it's pretty impressive. In a couple of hours I sketched out a sensible visual direction for Eventitech. Then I spent three days on Claude Code, hammering away quite a bit, and in the end a full redesign came out: both visual and functional, but also at the level of frontend technology, client-side and server-side code. Fully...
December 5, 2025
Migrating from Ingress NGINX to Envoy Gateway: Handling cert-manager integration
The recent retirement of Ingress NGINX led a lot of people (including myself) to consider alternatives. Since we need to migrate anyway, it makes sense to migrate to the newer Gateway API, the replacement for the older Ingress API. This post focuses specifically on migrating TLS certificate management with cert-manager when moving from Ingress NGINX to Envoy Gateway using the Kubernetes Gateway API. The Ingress API's limited expressiveness led to...
November 14, 2025
OpenTelemetry Incremental Adoption Strategies
OpenTelemetry is rapidly becoming the de facto standard for telemetry collection. My highly scientific show-of-hands polls during a couple of public speaking engagements over the last year show steadily rising awareness and adoption. OpenTelemetry (OTel) is a framework designed to collect logs, metrics, traces, and other signals. It includes a set of SDKs, semantic conventions, a protocol specification, and an agent called the OpenTelemetry Collector, essentially a modular data pipeline...