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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.

Retrieval Ranking: The Search Results
Retrieval Ranking: The Search Results
21 Aug, 2026 | 09 Mins read

You search Google for "bank account interest rates." The first result is an advertisement for a bank. The second is a comparison site. The third is a news article about the Fed's latest decision. The

Agent frameworks compared: LangGraph vs CrewAI vs AutoGen
Agent frameworks compared: LangGraph vs CrewAI vs AutoGen
20 Aug, 2026 | 06 Mins read

Single-agent applications — one LLM, one set of tools, one task — are straightforward to build and debug. The agent receives input, calls tools, produces output. When multi-step reasoning or collabora

Real-time pricing engine: from batch overnight to sub-second
Real-time pricing engine: from batch overnight to sub-second
19 Aug, 2026 | 05 Mins read

An online travel agency processed 2.3 million flight searches per day. Each search triggered a pricing computation that determined the displayed fare for every matching itinerary. The pricing computat

AI Contract Management: Automating Review and Risk Assessment
AI Contract Management: Automating Review and Risk Assessment
18 Aug, 2026 | 17 Mins read

Legal review scales poorly. A contracts team can process a certain volume per person per week. When the business grows, the team either grows proportionally or contracts queue up behind review capacit

Lessons from aviation safety for AI system design
Lessons from aviation safety for AI system design
17 Aug, 2026 | 05 Mins read

Commercial aviation has a fatality rate of roughly 0.07 deaths per billion passenger miles. This is not an accident of technology. It is the result of a safety culture that was built, over decades, fr

The observability maturity model for AI systems
The observability maturity model for AI systems
16 Aug, 2026 | 07 Mins read

Most AI systems in production operate with observability that was designed for traditional software. Teams monitor CPU, memory, network, and error rates. These metrics tell you whether the server is r

Web scraping legality update: what changed this quarter
Web scraping legality update: what changed this quarter
15 Aug, 2026 | 03 Mins read

The legal landscape for web scraping shifted twice this quarter, and the changes affect any organization that scrapes web data for AI training, RAG pipelines, or market intelligence. First, a US fede

Context Injection: The Briefing Book
Context Injection: The Briefing Book
14 Aug, 2026 | 09 Mins read

A new vice president joins the company. Before the first day, the executive assistant delivers a briefing book: the company's history, the current strategic priorities, the key people, the pending dec

MCP server ecosystem: what's production-ready in 2026?
MCP server ecosystem: what's production-ready in 2026?
13 Aug, 2026 | 05 Mins read

The Model Context Protocol (MCP) was released in late 2024 as a standardized way for AI models to interact with external tools and data sources. By mid-2026, the server ecosystem has grown to hundreds