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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.
Real-world AI requires processing multiple data types simultaneously. Humans perceive and reason using multiple senses; AI systems increasingly mirror this capability through multimodal approaches com
Data lakehouses combine lake flexibility with warehouse performance but introduce security challenges from their hybrid nature. Securing these environments requires layered approaches covering authent
Enterprise data naturally forms networks: customer relationships, supply chains, financial transactions, product hierarchies. Graph neural networks (GNNs) process this structured data to derive insigh
DataOps and MLOps both aim to improve reliability and efficiency in data-centric workflows, but they address different parts of the data science lifecycle. Understanding their boundaries helps organiz
ML models require data to train effectively, but this data often contains sensitive personal information. Privacy-preserving ML (PPML) techniques enable organizations to build effective models while s
Data contracts are formal agreements that define the structure, semantics, quality standards, and delivery expectations for data exchanged between teams. They specify schema definitions, SLAs, ownersh
Traditional relational database management systems were designed for an era of megabyte-scale datasets and batch reporting. AI workloads demand processing terabyte-scale datasets with complex analytic
Organizations scaling ML efforts encounter a predictable problem: feature engineering work duplicates across teams, training-serving skew causes model failures in production, and point-in-time correct
Vector databases index and query high-dimensional vector embeddings. Unlike traditional databases that excel at exact matches, vector databases enable similarity search: finding items conceptually clo