Artetecha is back

For seven years, Artetecha was a limited company in London — a solo consultancy that lived through the enterprise Drupal era, the rise of microservices, and more CMS migrations than I care to count. When I closed the company and moved back to Italy, the site stayed up like a shop window for a shop that had quietly changed address.

It’s time the name worked for a living again. Artetecha is now the tech practice of Vincenzo Russo — me — from Italy, where I work as a Strategic Solutions Engineer at Upsun and keep a Partita IVA on the side of the desk.

What changed under the hood

The old site ran WordPress with a page-builder theme, a database, a Redis cache, and an Elasticsearch cluster — respectable machinery for a company site in 2016, and gloriously unnecessary for a personal one in 2026. The new site is Astro: Markdown files in a git repository, static HTML out, zero JavaScript by default, still hosted on Upsun (naturally — I’d never hear the end of it otherwise).

The blog you’re reading survives too: the best posts from 2009–2019 live on in the archive, clearly dated and unrepentantly of their era.

What to expect

Notes on platforms, solutions architecture, DevOps, and the odd dispatch from the AI-first corner of solutions engineering — in English, e ogni tanto in italiano. Restless since 2012.