Lab42 / Independent research & consulting

Make it work.Make it better.

Automate infrastructure. Build useful software.
Share what we learn along the way.

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Italy · Independent since 1996 · Open source by conviction

1996 / Lab42 begins2012 / example42 beginsIT + EN / Two podcasts

01 / What we do

Three fields.
One curious lab.

Hands-on engineering. Independent thinking. Knowledge worth sharing.

Infrastructure

Get your systems
under control.

Puppet, DevOps and cloud automation. Built to run. Built to maintain.

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Applied AI

Put the tools
to work.

AI coding workflows, useful applications and practical help for your team.

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Media

Stay curious.
Talk about it.

Two podcasts. Independent websites. Tech and the people behind it.

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02 / Made in the lab

Ideas you can use.

All our software

Smack / Native macOS app

Your Mac.
Nothing hidden.

Live performance. Deep process inspections. Docker and AI agents, in one place.

Meet Smack
Smack dashboard with Mac performance and system health
Infrastructure

Pabawi

Your infrastructure tools. One console.

 Open source

example42

Puppet modules, tools and guides. Since 2012.

 Learning

Openskills

Learn across IT. Find the gaps. Keep going.

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What are you working on?

Small team. Senior engineers. A direct conversation about what you need.

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