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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.

AI chip wars: NVIDIA, AMD, Intel, and custom silicon — who wins?
AI chip wars: NVIDIA, AMD, Intel, and custom silicon — who wins?
19 Sep, 2026 | 04 Mins read

NVIDIA still dominates AI inference and training hardware, but the dominance is no longer absolute in the way it was 18 months ago. AMD has shipped competitive alternatives at lower price points. Inte

Corpus: The Library Card Catalog
Corpus: The Library Card Catalog
18 Sep, 2026 | 08 Mins read

You are in a library built before computers. The building holds 200,000 volumes. You need a book on medieval water mills. You do not wander the stacks hoping to stumble on it. You walk to the card cat

Document intelligence platforms: AWS Textract vs Azure AI Doc Intelligence vs Google DocAI
Document intelligence platforms: AWS Textract vs Azure AI Doc Intelligence vs Google DocAI
17 Sep, 2026 | 05 Mins read

Every enterprise processes documents. Invoices, contracts, forms, receipts, medical records, insurance claims — the volume is measured in millions of pages per month for large organizations. The quest

Building a customer 360 from 12 disconnected CRM systems
Building a customer 360 from 12 disconnected CRM systems
16 Sep, 2026 | 07 Mins read

A healthcare conglomerate grew through acquisition for fifteen years. Each acquisition brought its own CRM. Salesforce in three divisions. Microsoft Dynamics in two. HubSpot in one. A custom-built CRM

When the CDO and CTO disagreed on AI strategy — and what happened
When the CDO and CTO disagreed on AI strategy — and what happened
15 Sep, 2026 | 06 Mins read

At a mid-market insurance company with eight thousand employees, the Chief Data Officer and the Chief Technology Officer had fundamentally different views on how AI should be adopted. The CDO believed

Lessons from manufacturing quality control for AI system reliability
Lessons from manufacturing quality control for AI system reliability
14 Sep, 2026 | 04 Mins read

Manufacturing figured out quality control decades ago. AI is still learning the lesson the hard way. When a car leaves the factory with a defect, the manufacturer does not shrug and say "models are p

The LLM cost optimization playbook: 12 techniques that actually save money
The LLM cost optimization playbook: 12 techniques that actually save money
13 Sep, 2026 | 04 Mins read

LLM costs are easy to start and hard to control. A team ships a feature that calls GPT-4, the feature works, users like it, and the invoice climbs 15 percent month over month. The cost is not a proble

The rise of vertical AI: industry-specific models outperform generalists
The rise of vertical AI: industry-specific models outperform generalists
12 Sep, 2026 | 04 Mins read

The benchmark results from the past quarter are hard to ignore. On tasks spanning legal document analysis, medical coding, financial risk assessment, and manufacturing quality inspection, vertical AI

Explanations: The Teacher's Markers
Explanations: The Teacher's Markers
11 Sep, 2026 | 09 Mins read

Your daughter's math homework comes back with a red X. The answer is wrong. But she does not know why it is wrong, and the X does not tell her. She gets a correct answer on the next problem through lu