Codemotion Magazine

April 29, 2026

AI Stack: From Machine Learning to Agentic AI

By Orli Dun

A practical guide for developers who want to understand the AI ecosystem — not just use it. The word “artificial intelligence” gets applied to everything: chatbots, Netflix recommendations, self-driving cars, image generators. But behind all of it sits a well-defined technology stack — layers built on top of each other, each one with a reason… Read more

5 min read

April 15, 2026

“We Don’t Store Your Data” Isn’t Enough: How Regolo.ai’s Zero Data Retention Policy Actually Works

By Codemotion

When you send a prompt to an AI inference provider, what happens to it? The optimistic answer is “it’s processed and discarded.” The honest answer is: it depends — on the provider’s infrastructure, their terms of service, their fine print, and how they interpret phrases like “we don’t train on your data.” These two statements… Read more

March 19, 2026

Snowflake – “Beyond SQL Generation”: Teaching AI Agents What Your Database Really Means

By Codemotion

For decades, SQL has been the universal language organizations use to query their data. Simple in its basic syntax yet powerful in its expressiveness, SQL has survived every technological wave—from the relational databases of the 1980s to modern data warehouses—remaining the fundamental tool developers, analysts, and systems of all kinds use to access structured information.… Read more

Frontend

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.

June 17, 2025

AI-Ready Frontend Architecture

By César Alberca

Originally published on cesalberca.com Adapted for Codemotion Magazine by César Alberca, Frontend Architect and Codemotion Committee Member Rethinking Frontend Architecture in the Age of AI We’re entering an era where frontend systems aren’t just used by humans—they’re also parsed, generated, and interpreted by AI tools. Modern frameworks like shadcn/ui, design-to-code tools like V0.dev, and IDE… Read more

Backend

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

May 13, 2025

Start building REST APIs with Django REST Framework

By raffaelegrieco.it

Django REST Framework (DRF) is one of the most powerful and flexible tools for building RESTful APIs in Python. This article will guide you step by step through the process of creating your first API endpoint, covering the use of serializers, views, and URL routing. In my previous article, we discussed how to structure your… Read more

Dev Life

7 min read

March 3, 2026

The Engineering of the Possible: Beyond the “Best Practices” Dogma

By Matteo Baccan

When we face a programming problem, we often hear reassuring yet limiting phrases: On one hand, these words should reassure me: my problem has already been decoded and solved by enlightened minds. On the other hand, they make me feel inadequate, as if I were a heretic unable to see the “light” of the perfect… Read more

5 min read

February 25, 2026

Milano Cortina 2026: When Copper Is Worth More Than Gold

By Arnaldo Morena

Forget the romantic image of a timekeeper pressing a stopwatch at the edge of the track, or a judge scribbling scores in a notebook. The Milano Cortina 2026 Winter Olympics were not just a global sporting event. They marked a new ceiling for digital infrastructure — one of the most complex, distributed, real-time, mission-critical systems… Read more

7 min read

February 2, 2026

Ada Lovelace: The Victorian Visionary Who Predicted AI 200 Years Before ChatGPT

By Lucilla Tomassi

What if I told you the first person to imagine intelligent machines wasn’t a Silicon Valley founder, but a 19th-century aristocrat who never lived to see electricity? In 1843, while most of humanity was still debating whether trains would make cows stop producing milk, Ada Lovelace wrote something extraordinary: notes on a theoretical computing machine… Read more

DevOps

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