How this publication is made

marionoioso.com is an independent publication on data systems, artificial intelligence, public sector technology and technology culture, written and edited by one person.

It is organised in three sections, Data & AI, Public Sector and Technology Culture, plus a Library of books and free field guides. New essays appear several times a month; field guides a few times a year. Nothing here is sponsored, syndicated or written to a brief.

Mario Noioso, editor and sole author. Advisory Solutions Architect at MongoDB, with thirty years in systems engineering across IBM, Microsoft and ServiceNow, holder of USPTO patents, author of Who Owns Memory Owns the Future. Full profile →

This site is not affiliated with, reviewed by or funded by any employer, vendor or institution. Views are the author’s own. When a piece discusses products of the author’s employer, that relationship is stated in the piece. There is no advertising, no affiliate tracking and no paywall; book links point to retailers at list price.

Claims about systems, laws and figures are sourced in the text or linked. Illustrations are credited; images generated with AI tools are made by the author and used as illustration, never as documentary evidence. Quotations are verbatim. Articles are written in English; the occasional Italian piece is marked as such.

Every article carries one label above the title. There are eight, and they tell you what kind of reading you are in for.

Analysis

What a system, a market or a decision actually does, argued from evidence. Conclusions follow the data.

Opinion

A position the author holds and defends. Marked so that it is never mistaken for reporting.

Essay

A longer reflection on memory, technology and the people caught between them. Slower, more personal.

Explainer

How something works, written for a reader who needs to understand it, not build it.

Tutorial

Step by step, with code or configuration you can reproduce. Tested at the time of writing.

Field Guide

A reference architecture or pattern from real deployments, with the trade-offs stated.

Retro

Old machines and old software, examined for what they still teach.

Hi-Fi

Audio equipment and listening, the one hobby allowed on these pages.

Pieces published before 2020 are kept unedited and are collected in From the archive.

Errors of fact are corrected in the article as soon as they are verified, with a dated note at the end of the piece. Substantive updates to an argument are marked as updates, not silently rewritten. Typos and formatting are fixed without notice.

To report an error, quote the sentence and write to noiosom@gmail.com with “Correction” in the subject line. Every message is read.

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