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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 hold up a mirror to see if there is something on your face. The mirror does not clean your face. It does not tell you how to live. It reflects what is there so you can judge whether what is there
On a Tuesday at 2:14 PM, a major model provider began returning elevated error rates for a specific model endpoint. By 2:31 PM, a customer support platform that depended on that endpoint was producing
A fintech company shipped a prompt update to their underwriting assistant on a Friday afternoon. The update improved response quality on three of four test cases. On Monday, the risk team reported tha
Serving a language model in production is an infrastructure problem, not a model problem. The model weights are the same regardless of how you serve them. What differs is throughput (how many requests
LinkedIn's latest workforce report shows "AI engineer" as the fastest-growing job title for the third consecutive quarter. Job postings containing the title increased 280% year-over-year. The growth r
An insurance company with $400 million in premium volume adopted data mesh two years ago. The central data team had become a bottleneck. Every business unit — claims, underwriting, actuarial, and dist
A Fortune 500 company hired a team of twelve machine learning engineers and tasked them with building a predictive maintenance system for their manufacturing floor. The ML team spent four months evalu
Organizations that skip readiness assessment before investing in AI tend to discover their gaps expensively. A financial services firm spent four months building a customer churn prediction model only
A mid-size automotive parts manufacturer with operations spanning 15 countries and relationships with over 200 suppliers faced a supply chain coordination problem that was consuming too much of their