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title: "Insights: AI, tech trends and software architecture · Volcanic Minds"
description: "Explore the future of technology. Technical and strategic articles on AI agents, cloud native architectures, governance and enterprise development."
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updated: "2026-10-09"
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# Inside the innovation

From our latest projects to recent events: news, stories, and the visions that shape our path. A glimpse behind the scenes into our daily approach to innovation.

## All articles

*News and insights*

- [Web Bot Auth: visitors with no eyes](/en/insights/web-bot-auth-agentic-traffic.md): AI agents read your site and convert better than organic, yet they never show up in analytics. How to measure them and verify them with Web Bot Auth.
- [Generative UI: for humans and machines](/en/insights/generative-ui-agents-dual-mode.md): Explore how Generative UI and Dual-Interaction UX transform enterprise SaaS by creating adaptive interfaces for human operators and AI agents.
- [Data quality: data decides, not the model](/en/insights/data-quality-why-ai-fails-on-dirty-data.md): When AI gets it wrong, blame the data, not the model. How to identify, sanitize and refresh your sources so AI actually works in your next business project.
- [European AI Act who does it really affect?](/en/insights/eu-ai-act-deployer-business.md): The EU AI Act doesn't only target those who build the models, but those who use AI in business. What applies from 2 August 2026 and what moves to 2027-2028.
- [Digital accessibility is not a badge](/en/insights/why-accessibility-overlays-fail.md): Discover why accessibility overlays fail WCAG 2.1 AA compliance and why building native accessibility is crucial for legal and commercial success.
- [Small is the new big: SLM for enterprise](/en/insights/small-language-models-enterprise.md): Enterprise AI doesn't need giant models. Learn how Small Language Models (SLMs) cut inference costs, reduce latency, and ensure complete data sovereignty.
- [Multi-tenant: SaaS data segregation](/en/insights/multi-tenant-ai-saas-strategy.md): What multi-tenant means and how to pick data isolation in a SaaS: dedicated database, separate schema or shared row, and what changes with AI and RAG.
- [Advanced security: MFA in minutes](/en/insights/implement-advanced-security-mfa-totp-nodejs-by-design.md): A technical guide to adding TOTP Multi-Factor Authentication to your Node.js web apps. Setup, QR code, token verification and testing in TypeScript.
- [AI agents: development lifecycle](/en/insights/ai-agents-software-lifecycle.md): 40% of apps will feature AI Agents, but 89% of PoCs fail. Discover the 3 architectural patterns to bring AI into production without risks.
- [In 2026, beyond the demo: bringing AI to production](/en/insights/bring-ai-to-production-roi-2026.md): Move beyond PoC Purgatory. Learn how to transform AI prototypes into secure, profitable industrial assets with deep integration and ROI monitoring.
- [Not just AI in 2026: cookie vs LocalStorage](/en/insights/cookie-vs-localstorage-security-guide.md): LocalStorage exposes auth tokens to any script on the page, XSS included. Why HttpOnly cookies close that gap, with the attack path and a Nuxt 3 example.
- [Green software: ethics with profit](/en/insights/ai-roi-green-software-profit-strategy.md): Cut your cloud bill and raise operating margins with green software: why energy efficiency is the ROI metric that turns sustainability into an edge.
- [Composite agents: governance and reliability](/en/insights/composite-ai-agents-governance-mastra.md): A technical guide to composite AI agents: how Mastra and TypeScript bring real governance, deterministic workflows and reliability to enterprise AI.
- [Managing risk in custom software](/en/insights/how-to-manage-risk-custom-software-projects.md): Derisking strategies for custom software development. Learn how to manage budget, timelines, and technical complexity to ensure Enterprise project success.
- [Volcano SDK: Kong and its agents](/en/insights/volcano-sdk-kong-agents-production-ready.md): Bringing AI Agents to production safely. Learn how we use Volcano SDK by Kong to manage workflow, governance, and scalability of AI services.
- [Tech debt: it's a mortgage](/en/insights/tech-debt-strategic-risk.md): Technical debt is not just bad code: it is the speed a company loses later, when every change costs more than the one before it.
- [RAG agents tailor-made](/en/insights/rag-agent-mastra-ai.md): Build a RAG agent with Mastra in TypeScript: vector search, embeddings and connecting an LLM to proprietary data. Working code, no Python needed.
- [Volcanic Minds bronze sponsor at AI Heroes 2025](/en/insights/volcanic-minds-bronze-sponsor-ai-heroes-2025.md): AI Heroes 2025, May 27 at UCI Lingotto in Turin. Our talk on agent interoperability across CrewAI, LangGraph and Google A2A, with a live multi-agent demo.
- [We Make Future 2025 BolognaFiere](/en/insights/we-make-future-2025-bologna-fiere.md): Volcanic Minds at WMF 2025. Insights from our experience at Bologna Fiere: artificial intelligence, digital innovation, and the new frontiers of global tech.
- [Vibe coding: how AI is transforming software development](/en/insights/vibe-coding-tools-for-devs.md): Which vibe coding tools actually hold up: Cursor, Windsurf and the rest compared, what changes in the workflow, and where hand-written code still wins.
- [Modern SEO: strategies and the future with GEO](/en/insights/seo-without-ads-geo-optimization.md): How to grow organically in the AI era. A guide to GEO (Generative Engine Optimization) and SEO strategies to rank high without an advertising budget.
- [Low-code and no-code vs coding](/en/insights/low-code-no-code-vs-coding.md): Real differences between low-code, no-code and custom software: costs, scalability limits, vendor lock-in, and when each approach is actually the right call.
- [LLMs and JavaScript: practical guides](/en/insights/llm-javascript-practical-guide.md): Run and call LLMs from JavaScript: Transformers.js in the browser, Xenova models, and server-side inference from Node.js. Patterns and working code.
- [Volcanic Minds speaking at Future Vision](/en/insights/future-vision-polo-ict.md): Our insights from the Future Vision event by Polo ICT. Networking, new technological perspectives, and strategic synergies for digital innovation in Turin.
- [A bit of \[hi\]story by MuPIn](/en/insights/a-bit-of-history-mupin.md): Discovering MuPIn, the Piedmontese Museum of Computer Science. A journey through computer history, retrocomputing, and the tech culture of Turin.
- [Volcanic Minds in the Smart Communities 2023 booklet](/en/insights/smartcommunities-booklet.md): SmartCommunitiesTech included a Volcanic Minds project, built with Hawica and Airbag Studio, in its booklet of the best Call4Speaker 2023 submissions.
- [Corporate Meeting Polo ICT](/en/insights/corporate-meeting-polo-ict.md): Volcanic Minds at the Polo ICT Corporate Meeting. A strategic B2B networking event in Turin to explore new synergies and foster digital innovation partnerships.
- [Linux Day Turin 2023](/en/insights/linux-day-torino-2023.md): Volcanic Minds at Linux Day Torino 2023. Celebrating free software, open innovation, and knowledge sharing with the local tech community.
- [Our website](/en/insights/making-of.md): Behind the scenes of Volcanic Minds: how we built our digital identity with Nuxt.js, Prismic CMS, performance optimization and green web design.
- [Google Analytics, GDPR and the Plausible alternative](/en/insights/google-analytics-gdpr-alternative-plausible.md): Is Google Analytics GDPR compliant? Why Plausible Analytics is the privacy-first, cookie-less alternative for European businesses and their data.

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