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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.

How to design a prompt ops pipeline from scratch
How to design a prompt ops pipeline from scratch
10 May, 2026 | 06 Mins read

Prompt management in most AI teams starts the same way. One engineer writes a prompt, it works well enough, and the prompt gets committed to a config file. Three months later, there are forty prompts

Why every cloud provider launched an AI operating system this year
Why every cloud provider launched an AI operating system this year
09 May, 2026 | 03 Mins read

AWS announced Bedrock Studio. Google shipped Vertex AI Platform as a unified surface. Azure consolidated its AI offerings under a single "AI Foundry" brand. Databricks, Snowflake, and even Cloudflare

Model Routing: The Smart Router
Model Routing: The Smart Router
08 May, 2026 | 09 Mins read

You arrive at a hotel. The receptionist does not handle everything. A guest checking in goes to the front desk. A guest ordering room service gets routed to the kitchen line. A guest with a billing co

Orchestration face-off: Airflow vs Prefect vs Dagster
Orchestration face-off: Airflow vs Prefect vs Dagster
07 May, 2026 | 06 Mins read

The orchestration market has a clear incumbent and two serious challengers. Apache Airflow has been the default choice since 2015. Prefect and Dagster both emerged to address Airflow's pain points, bu

Vector database showdown: Pinecone, Weaviate, Qdrant, Milvus
Vector database showdown: Pinecone, Weaviate, Qdrant, Milvus
06 May, 2026 | 05 Mins read

Every team building retrieval-augmented generation or semantic search eventually needs a vector database. The market has consolidated around four serious options: Pinecone, Weaviate, Qdrant, and Milvu

From 3-hour dashboards to 3-minute insights: a BI modernization story
From 3-hour dashboards to 3-minute insights: a BI modernization story
05 May, 2026 | 05 Mins read

A manufacturing company with facilities in twelve countries ran its operational reporting on a traditional BI stack: a data warehouse, an ETL pipeline, and a dashboard tool that had been deployed six

What we can learn from the DevOps revolution applied to AI
What we can learn from the DevOps revolution applied to AI
04 May, 2026 | 04 Mins read

In 2009, deploying software to production was an event. It involved a change request, a maintenance window, a runbook, and a prayer. Developers wrote code, then threw it over the wall to operations, w

Build vs buy: a decision tree for AI infrastructure
Build vs buy: a decision tree for AI infrastructure
03 May, 2026 | 06 Mins read

Every AI infrastructure team eventually faces the same argument. One faction wants to build a custom solution because the commercial options do not handle their specific requirements. The other factio

The open-source LLM landscape just shifted — again
The open-source LLM landscape just shifted — again
02 May, 2026 | 03 Mins read

Three releases in the last six weeks have redrawn the open-source LLM map. Meta shipped Llama 4 with a mixture-of-experts architecture that narrows the gap with proprietary frontier models. Mistral re