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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 safety regulation roundup: US, EU, UK, and Asia compared
AI safety regulation roundup: US, EU, UK, and Asia compared
01 Aug, 2026 | 04 Mins read

The regulatory landscape for AI safety has fractured along jurisdictional lines. The EU has taken a prescriptive, risk-based approach. The US has taken a sector-specific, agency-led approach. The UK h

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 deserialization 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 optimized 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 organizations 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 center

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.