Codemotion Magazine

7 min read

June 17, 2026

How Agentic Commerce Will Change E-Commerce Forever

By Arnaldo Morena

Last week my five-year-old HP laptop decided it was time to let me go, and while I was doing my usual zigzag through the streets of Rome, it threw itself under the wheels of a passing bus like some metal Anna Karenina, no warning, no drama beforehand, just gone. Back home, I went shopping around… Read more

June 17, 2026

The AI You Didn’t Know You Were Using Wrong

By Codemotion

Everyone uses AI. Few use it well. Between prompts written with no real criteria, agents handed tasks a simple script would do better, and teams “adopting AI” without changing a single process, the gap between hype and real productivity keeps widening. At Codemotion Milan 2026, a group of speakers takes on that gap with no… Read more

10 min read

June 3, 2026

Is the human the bug or the feature of AI development?

By Matteo Baccan

Spoiler: Business is gently escorting us out of the door of AI processes. But maybe it’s not the end of our job—rather, the beginning of something much more interesting. Do you remember when, to approve any change, you had to wait for the manager’s signature on a mimeographed document? We need someone responsible. This was… Read more

Frontend

May 6, 2026

LLMs in Gaming: Mapping the Present

By Codemotion

From NPCs that never forget to autonomous playtesting—where Large Language Models actually stand in gaming today, and where they’re still more promise than reality. Over the past two years, the very meaning of “game AI” has shifted. For decades, it meant pathfinding and behavior trees. Today, it includes language models influencing writing, testing, and even… Read more

January 21, 2026

Developing video games with 100% open source tools: challenge accepted!

By Codemotion

The open source ecosystem has reached an extraordinary level of maturity in recent years, making it possible to create professional video games without spending a single cent on software licenses. From Godot to Blender, it is now possible to build a complete open source game development pipeline. These free tools have already powered multiple Steam… Read more

October 29, 2025

“Works better in the app”: a strategy that might be backfiring

By Manu Pedreira

An analysis of how the phrase “works better in the app” can harm user experience in apps and damage the relationship with users.

Backend

May 19, 2026

If Hope is Your Strategy, You’re Doing On-Call Wrong

By Natalia de Pablo Garcia

Codemotion Madrid 2026 is fine-tuning every detail to welcome a new edition packed with knowledge, business opportunities, and networking. Among the wide range of topics ahead, DevOps will play a key role at a time when, although everything moves at breakneck speed, security and stability remain non-negotiable. In the talk “If Hope is Your Strategy,… Read more

8 min read

July 30, 2025

Setting Up MCP Servers: What, Why and How

By Dipti Parmar

As artificial intelligence continues to evolve rapidly, AI agents are no longer isolated entities answering isolated queries. Instead, they act as orchestrators in complex ecosystems, communicating with other tools, accessing multiple data sources, collaborating within multi-agent systems, and performing actions based on data-informed reasoning. At the heart of this transformation lies the Model Context Protocol… Read more

June 10, 2025

VanillaCreamJS: Superpowers for Native JavaScript

By Riccardo Degni

VanillaCreamJS is a JavaScript library that literally gives “superpowers” to native JavaScript, enabling powerful and modern capabilities like reactivity without the need for build tools or compilation steps. It’s a one-of-a-kind technology because it: VanillaCreamJS is created and maintained by Riccardo Degni, a senior Italian web developer. 👉 https://www.riccardodegni.com/projects/vanillacreamjs 📦 Installation Simply include VanillaCreamJS via… Read more

Dev Life

July 13, 2026

Candy Crush, Doom, and a 1977 Atari: the unexpected gaming side of Codemotion Milan 2026

By Codemotion

There’s a stubborn bias in tech: that gaming is a hobby, something you do in your free time, separate from “real work.” Look closer at the people designing the digital experiences we use every day, training AI models, or building complex systems, and you’ll find that many of them learned their most important lessons by… Read more

July 2, 2026

Who writes the code when machines write the code? Andrey Breslav at Codemotion Milan 2026

By Codemotion

There’s a moment in every Codemotion edition when we announce the name that opens the conference. This year that moment is worth telling properly. Andrey Breslav is the first confirmed keynote speaker for Codemotion Milan 2026. If the name rings a bell, there’s a reason: he’s the man behind Kotlin, the language you’ve probably written,… Read more

13 min read

July 2, 2026

De Crescenzo’s choice

By Matteo Baccan

Recently I came across this passage from Luciano De Crescenzo’s book “Order and Disorder”, which recounts a pivotal moment in his life, when he decided to leave his job as a software engineer at IBM to dedicate himself to writing. This passage made me think: it was 1978, an era in which professional stability was… Read more

DevOps

6 min read

June 8, 2026

Digital Sovereignty, Kubernetes, and Agentic DevOps: Why the Future of European Cloud Is Becoming Operational

By Codemotion

For years, “digital sovereignty” felt like a term destined to live in conference panels, EU policy documents, and LinkedIn posts written entirely in capital letters, vague enough to mean everything and nothing at once. Then something shifted. Italian and European organizations began to feel the problem in very concrete terms: cloud costs spiraling out of… Read more

6 min read

November 5, 2025

The Cloud Is Drowning — But I’m Fine, I Live by the River (and I Have a NAS)

By Arnaldo Morena

Between late October and November 2025, the internet collectively held its breath. Several major cloud providers went down for hours — a period long enough for entire companies to remember how to communicate by rubbing sticks together. Beyond the flood of technical postmortems that followed, one can’t help but notice the comic side: when Azure… Read more