Mario Noioso
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Healthcare Needs a Memory.
Yesterday I opened MongoDB’s first EMEA-wide healthcare webinar with a question that sounds almost too simple: as healthcare changes, what must our applications know about the patient? I had twenty minutes before handing over to Francesc Mateu, our Field CTO for Healthcare, and then to a live demo of an intelligent patient journey. Twenty minutes is enough to make one argument, not to prove it.
We Specified an AI Agent in 2016. We Called It Analytics.
In November 2016, three colleagues and I at IBM filed a patent application with a title that sounds almost quaint today: "Real-Time Analysis of a Musical Performance Using Analytics" (published as US 2018/0137425 A1 [1]). The scenario we described was a rock concert.
26 Ways to Run MongoDB: From Bare Metal to Air-Gapped Clouds
One Database, Twenty-Six Landing Zones EMEA PUBLIC SECTOR SERIES This article is part of the EMEA Public Sector series, exploring why data sovereignty has become a critical priority for governments and public institutions across Europe, the Middle East, and Africa.
Your AI Agents Don’t Have an Intelligence Problem. They Have a Memory Problem.
There is a scene I keep watching repeat itself in enterprise AI programs. The demo was brilliant. The agent answered fluently, reasoned through multi-step tasks, called the right tools in the right order. Budget approved, pilot launched. Then production traffic arrives, and within weeks the same agent is asking users questions they answered two sessions ago, acting on data that was current last quarter, and confidently contradicting the decision it made yesterday.
Commodore 64 Ultimate: The Machine That Refuses to Be Forgotten
The Commodore 64 Ultimate is a 1982 computer back in production in 2026, and the interesting question is not whether it is good. It is why we keep rebuilding the machines that made us, including the iconic commodore-64. The commodore-64 is more than just a computer; it’s a piece of our history that continues to resonate with enthusiasts. The reviews have been rolling in for weeks, from Wired to the retro press, and they mostly agree: the thing is excellent.
Five Questions to Ask Any System That Decides About You
Manifestos ask for adherence. Questions ask for answers, case by case. Here are the five questions I use as a field test for algorithmic accountability, and the reason the last one cannot be faked. It is tempting to end any argument about technology and power with a manifesto. Ten principles, seven rights, twelve recommendations: tidy numbers give the impression that the world has finally accepted the structure of the slide deck.
Thirty Years Inside the Memory Machine
Somewhere in a datacenter there is a switch for everything you remember digitally. Not a metaphorical switch: a change ticket, an approval chain, a runbook, a person on call. I have spent more than thirty years on the technical side of that arrangement, from IBM mainframes to the data platforms that European institutions run today, and I have learned that the most political object in any organization is not the org chart. It is the system that remembers.
Grand Theft Authorship
In one of the clips, the protagonist raises a rifle and fires into a wall until the bullet holes spell a word: Leek. That is the signature. Whoever is behind the leaks, they are not passing along someone else’s footage; they are inside the game, playing it, and they signed the most expensive entertainment artifact ever assembled with its own weapons, on its own scenery. Vandalism as proof of authorship in what can be termed ‘Grand Theft Authorship’.
The Reverse Turing Test
In 1950 Alan Turing published a paper in Mind that opens with an impossible question, “Can machines think?”, and dismisses it within half a page as too meaningless to deserve discussion. In its place, he proposes a game. One interrogator, two rooms, a conversation conducted at a distance: if the machine can pass for the human being, the philosophical question evaporates and the result is allowed to stand.
Europe’s New Public-Sector Stack Is Not a Cloud. It Is a Coalition.
Across customs, health, tax, public administration and NATO, Europe is converging on a new way to build critical digital systems: an accountable integrator, a reusable platform, sovereign infrastructure and a protected operating model. The European public-sector sovereign stack is taking shape, but not as a single cloud. Europe spent years debating whether it needed one. In 2026, the market began answering a different question.
Italy Was First. Draft Decree No. 418 Shows What Comes Next
Draft Decree No. 418 marks the next operational phase of Italy’s AI framework — and the precise wording matters. In September 2025, Italy adopted Law No. 132/2025, a comprehensive national framework governing the development, deployment and governance of AI. The Italian government described it as the first national regulatory framework of its kind in Europe, fully aligned with the European AI Act. That does not mean Italy “transposed” the EU AI Act.
Can Europe really build a sovereign technology stack on community-driven open source?
This is one of the questions I keep coming back to while following the debate on European technological sovereignty. It deserves a calm, practical answer—not an ideological one. Can Europe build a truly sovereign technology stack by relying on community-driven open source? For those of us who have spent years in the technology sector, open source is not a slogan. We have watched Linux evolve from a niche curiosity into the backbone of the modern internet.
Understanding the EU Tech Sovereignty Package
Europe has spent the last decade regulating the digital economy. Now it is trying to build the foundations needed to compete in it. That is the real significance of the EU Tech Sovereignty Package. It is not just another Brussels policy file, nor simply a defensive reaction to the dominance of American and Chinese technology providers. It marks a deeper shift: Europe is moving from regulating digital power to trying to own, operate, govern and sustain more of the infrastructure behind it.
Why Sovereignty, Why Now
EMEA PUBLIC SECTOR SERIES This article is part of the EMEA Public Sector series, exploring why data sovereignty has become a critical priority for governments and public institutions across Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. As regulatory pressure, geopolitical risk, and AI adoption reshape digital strategies, data sovereignty is emerging as a key pillar of modern public sector data platform architectures, enabling control, resilience, and trusted digital services.
Turkiye Sovereignty and the Shift Beyond Europe
EMEA PUBLIC SECTOR SERIES This article is part of the EMEA Public Sector series, exploring why data sovereignty has become a critical priority for governments and public institutions across Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. As regulatory pressure, geopolitical risk, and AI adoption reshape digital strategies, data sovereignty is emerging as a key pillar of modern public sector data platform architectures, enabling control, resilience, and trusted digital services.
The Space Between Sounds
There was a moment, somewhere between lowering a needle on a record and powering on the Eversolo, where something clicked. Two completely different worlds. On one side, vinyl: Physical, imperfect, almost fragile. On the other, high-resolution streaming: Clean, precise, almost invisible. And yet, they seem to converge. For years, digital audio felt like a compromise. Convenient, yes. Accurate, maybe. But always slightly… constrained. Vinyl was different. Not because it was “better”.
The Great Reorg: The End of Organizations as We Know Them
Over the past two years, most conversations around AI have started from the same question: “How can we use it to be more productive?” It is a reasonable question. But it may no longer be the most relevant one. Because what seems to be emerging is not just a productivity shift. It looks more like the early signs of a structural redesign. A transition that, for lack of a better term, we can call The Great Reorg. In its first phase, AI has been interpreted as an accelerator. Faster code. Faster analysis.
Beyond Hyperscalers: MongoDB Offerings Across Europe’s Sovereign Clouds
EMEA PUBLIC SECTOR SERIES This article is part of the EMEA Public Sector series, exploring why data sovereignty has become a critical priority for governments and public institutions across Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. As regulatory pressure, geopolitical risk, and AI adoption reshape digital strategies, data sovereignty is emerging as a key pillar of modern public sector data platform architectures, enabling control, resilience, and trusted digital services.
Production AI is not a demo: lessons learned building real GenAI systems with MongoDB
In the last year, I’ve seen a pattern repeat itself again and again. AI demos look impressive. Production AI systems behave very differently. Once you move beyond notebooks and prototypes, the real challenges emerge: data consistency, latency, hybrid search, lifecycle management, and the uncomfortable gap between “it works” and “it works reliably”.
Arcana: an agentic AI system for reasoning about MongoDB architectures
Most AI tools today are optimized for conversation. Arcana is not. Arcana is an agentic AI system designed to reason about real-world data architectures, with a strong focus on MongoDB-based systems. The problem Arcana tries to solve Modern systems are no longer just “an app plus a database”.
Come l'AI supporta la gestione documentale della PA: le applicazioni
L’intelligenza artificiale ha oggi un ruolo particolarmente rilevante per la PA italiana perché consente di affrontare sfide strutturali che fino a poco tempo fa sembravano irrisolvibili: la gestione massiva di documenti e dati non strutturati, l’efficientamento delle attività interne, la trasparenza amministrativa e, soprattutto, l’erogazione di servizi realmente centrati sui bisogni del cittadino.
Dati sanitari: integrare standard e agilità per la sanità del futuro
La crescente disponibilità di dati sanitari rappresenta una grande opportunità per il settore healthcare. Tuttavia, trasformare queste informazioni in reale valore richiede una gestione strategica dei dati sanitari tra standard di interoperabilità e architetture tecnologiche agili, capaci di rispondere con rapidità alle esigenze cliniche ed evolutive della sanità moderna.
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