In traditional software engineering, on-call rotations are settled practice. The team that builds the system is the team that gets paged when it breaks. This creates a feedback loop: engineers who kno

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Data pipelines authenticate to more external systems than most application backends. A single pipeline might connect to a source database, a destination warehouse, an S3 bucket, an API endpoint, a mes

The narrative is seductive: a company adopts AI across every function, productivity soars, costs plummet, and the organisation enters a new era of data-driven decision-making. McKinsey publishes a cas

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Customer service AI most commonly fails in one of two ways. The first is a fully automated system that handles everything and regularly makes mistakes that upset customers. The second is an AI assista

Data pipelines are soft targets. They move sensitive data across network boundaries, authenticate with service accounts that have broad permissions, and log enough information to reconstruct entire da