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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.
Text-to-SQL has been promised for a decade. Every year, a new tool claims to convert natural language to production-ready SQL. Every year, the demos look impressive and the production deployments disa
When a model stops working correctly in production, the first question is always the same: what changed? Which version of the model is currently deployed? What training data was used? What evaluation
A regional logistics company running three thousand deliveries per day across a six-state territory had a late-delivery rate of fourteen percent. The cost of a late delivery was not just the apology.
Every AI demo is impressive. Every AI production system is a maintenance burden. The distance between those two statements is where most AI initiatives quietly fail. The demo shows a model producing
Most data mesh initiatives fail not because the architecture is wrong, but because nobody can answer the question: who owns this data product? When ownership is ambiguous, quality drops, SLAs go unmet
A quiet but significant trend has emerged over the past two quarters: enterprises are moving AI workloads off managed services and back onto infrastructure they control. The pattern is not universal,
You walk through a theme park. The paths are clear, the attractions are visible, and the crowd flows in the intended direction. You do not notice the rope barriers unless you try to walk somewhere you
A data pipeline fails silently. The DAG completes without errors, the tables are populated, but the numbers are wrong. A column that was never null now has 30% nulls. A join that produced 10,000 rows
The acquisition wave in AI this quarter was not random. Five deals, each above the billion-dollar threshold, closed within weeks of each other, and they share a common logic: the companies being acqui