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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.

Model Context Protocol: The USB-C Moment for AI Tooling
Model Context Protocol: The USB-C Moment for AI Tooling
16 Jul, 2026 | 21 Mins read

Every AI agent system eventually faces the same problem. You have built a capable language model. You want it to interact with your tools, your data, your APIs. So you write a custom integration layer

Data quality platforms: Great Expectations vs Soda vs Monte Carlo
Data quality platforms: Great Expectations vs Soda vs Monte Carlo
15 Jul, 2026 | 06 Mins read

Data quality failures are expensive and silent. A broken pipeline does not crash — it produces wrong data that flows into dashboards, models, and decisions. The error is discovered weeks later when a

How a healthcare org deployed LLMs without violating HIPAA
How a healthcare org deployed LLMs without violating HIPAA
14 Jul, 2026 | 05 Mins read

A hospital system with twelve facilities and 14,000 clinical staff wanted to use large language models to assist with clinical documentation. Physicians spent an average of two hours per day on docume

Technical debt in ML systems: a honest accounting
Technical debt in ML systems: a honest accounting
13 Jul, 2026 | 05 Mins read

Google's 2015 paper "Hidden Technical Debt in Machine Learning Systems" described a problem that has only gotten worse in the decade since. The paper's central observation was that the model itself is

How to write an AI incident response plan
How to write an AI incident response plan
12 Jul, 2026 | 07 Mins read

AI systems fail differently than traditional software. A traditional software bug produces incorrect output deterministically -- the same input always produces the same wrong output, and a fix elimina

Why your AI strategy needs a data strategy (not the other way around)
Why your AI strategy needs a data strategy (not the other way around)
11 Jul, 2026 | 03 Mins read

The majority of enterprise AI strategies are built on an implicit assumption: that the organization's data is ready to support AI workloads. The assumption is almost always wrong. Data that is adequat

Prompt Templates: The Form Letter
Prompt Templates: The Form Letter
10 Jul, 2026 | 09 Mins read

You have received a form letter. The salutation reads "Dear [Name]." The body discusses "your recent [transaction] at [location]." Somewhere near the bottom is a handwritten name and address, inserted

AI Agent Platforms Compared: CrewAI, AutoGen, and LangGraph for Mid-Market Operations
AI Agent Platforms Compared: CrewAI, AutoGen, and LangGraph for Mid-Market Operations
10 Jul, 2026 | 08 Mins read

You have signed off on an AI initiative. Your team has a real workflow in mind — say, triaging inbound operations tickets, drafting first-pass vendor reviews, or reconciling exception cases across thr

Legacy Data Pipeline Modernization Without Rewriting Everything
Legacy Data Pipeline Modernization Without Rewriting Everything
10 Jul, 2026 | 07 Mins read

The pipeline runs every night at 2 a.m. Nobody fully understands it. The original author left in 2019. It is part SAS, part shell, part stored procedures, and part a spreadsheet someone emails in. It