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Practical writing on AI cost, quality, and the control layers that keep multi-user systems honest in production.

AI Costs: The Utility Meter
AI Costs: The Utility Meter
31 Jul, 2026 | 09 Mins read

Your office building has one electricity meter. At the end of the month, you get a bill for the whole building. You know the total cost of electricity for the month. You do not know which floor consum

Schema registry showdown: Confluent vs Apicurio vs AWS Glue
Schema registry showdown: Confluent vs Apicurio vs AWS Glue
30 Jul, 2026 | 05 Mins read

When producers and consumers share a Kafka topic without agreeing on the data format, things break in production. A producer adds a field. A consumer expects the old schema. The deserialisation fails,

The gender gap in AI: what the data actually shows
The gender gap in AI: what the data actually shows
29 Jul, 2026 | 05 Mins read

The headline numbers are familiar. Women represent roughly a quarter of AI and data science professionals globally. At senior levels, the proportion drops to the low teens. At the C-suite level of AI-

Building trust in AI recommendations: the change management story
Building trust in AI recommendations: the change management story
28 Jul, 2026 | 06 Mins read

A consumer goods company built an AI system that recommended reorder quantities for 12,000 SKUs across 340 distribution points. The system optimised for a multi-objective function that balanced invent

AI in the Software Development Lifecycle: From Code Review to Deployment
AI in the Software Development Lifecycle: From Code Review to Deployment
27 Jul, 2026 | 22 Mins read

Code completion gets the attention, but it is the narrowest part of what AI can do in a development workflow. Walk into any team that has shipped software for a few years and they will tell you: writi

The procurement checklist for AI vendors
The procurement checklist for AI vendors
26 Jul, 2026 | 07 Mins read

AI vendor procurement is where organisations make binding commitments that are expensive to unwind. A three-year contract with a model provider locks you into their pricing, their rate limits, their m

The $100B AI infrastructure buildout: who benefits?
The $100B AI infrastructure buildout: who benefits?
25 Jul, 2026 | 03 Mins read

The combined AI infrastructure capital expenditure of the four largest cloud providers exceeded $100 billion in the trailing twelve months. Microsoft, Google, Amazon, and Meta are building data centre

Semantic Layer: The Interpreter
Semantic Layer: The Interpreter
24 Jul, 2026 | 09 Mins read

Two executives sit across a table. One speaks Japanese. One speaks German. The interpreter sits between them, translating in both directions. The executives do not need to know each other's languages.

The modern data stack is dead: here's what replaced it
The modern data stack is dead: here's what replaced it
23 Jul, 2026 | 05 Mins read

The modern data stack was a marketing category that outlived its usefulness. Between 2019 and 2023, it described a specific architecture: Fivetran or Airbyte for ingestion, dbt for transformation, Sno