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Data Infrastructure for Production AI
Practical writing on AI data engineering, feature stores, and the infrastructure choices that determine whether AI systems work in production.
You learned to solve quadratic equations from a textbook. The textbook did not just define the formula. It showed you worked examples: here is a problem, here is how you apply the formula, here is how
Building an LLM application is the easy part. Knowing whether it works — whether it still works after you change a prompt, swap a model, or add a tool — is the hard part. LLM evaluation platforms exis
The phrase "data-driven culture" has been emptied of meaning by overuse. It appears in every strategy deck, every job posting, every conference talk. Everyone claims to want it. Almost no one can desc
A media company with a library of twelve million articles, transcripts, and research documents had built a semantic search system on a managed vector database. The system was designed to let journalis
Data pipelines for AI are not the same as data pipelines for traditional software systems. The outputs are different. The failure modes are different. The tolerance for data quality issues is differen
Prompt management in most AI teams starts the same way. One engineer writes a prompt, it works well enough, and the prompt gets committed to a config file. Three months later, there are forty prompts
AWS announced Bedrock Studio. Google shipped Vertex AI Platform as a unified surface. Azure consolidated its AI offerings under a single "AI Foundry" brand. Databricks, Snowflake, and even Cloudflare
You arrive at a hotel. The receptionist does not handle everything. A guest checking in goes to the front desk. A guest ordering room service gets routed to the kitchen line. A guest with a billing co
The orchestration market has a clear incumbent and two serious challengers. Apache Airflow has been the default choice since 2015. Prefect and Dagster both emerged to address Airflow's pain points, bu