Luca Mezzalira is VP of Architecture at DAZN with over 15 years of experience, a Google Developer Expert on Web Technologies, and the London Javascript Community Manager. He has had the opportunity to work on cutting-edge projects for mobile, desktop, web, TVs, set top boxes, and embedded devices. Luca currently manages the technical department of DAZN, a sports video platform based on the cloud with millions of users who are watching live and on-demand content. In this role, he encounters all the typical problems, like scalability, resilience, and high availability. Luca thinks the best way to use any programming language is mastering their models, that's why he spends a lot of time studying and researching on topics like OOP, Functional and Reactive programming. In addition, he is a huge believer in cloud infrastructures; in his daily job, Luca uses AWS applying Serverless and Containers paradigms. Luca is the author of Front-End Reactive Architectures published by APress. In Luca's spare time, he has written for national and international technical magazines and editors. He is also a technical reviewer for APress, Packt Publishing, Pragmatic Bookshelf, and O'Reilly.
