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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 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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