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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.

Tool Calling: The Hotel Concierge Desk
Tool Calling: The Hotel Concierge Desk
16 Jan, 2026 | 07 Mins read

You stand at a hotel concierge desk. You want a table at the restaurant downstairs, a reservation at the spa, theater tickets, and a car to the airport. You do not want the concierge to do these thing

Designing the Enterprise Knowledge Layer: Beyond RAG
Designing the Enterprise Knowledge Layer: Beyond RAG
16 Jan, 2026 | 14 Mins read

Most teams implement retrieval-augmented generation and call it a knowledge layer. Give the model access to a vector database, stuff in some documents, and ship. This approach works for demos. It fall

Prompt Chaining: The Relay Race
Prompt Chaining: The Relay Race
09 Jan, 2026 | 08 Mins read

Four runners, one baton, four legs of a relay race. Runner A sprints the first leg, hands to Runner B, who sprints the second, hands to C, who hands to D, who crosses the finish line. None of them run

The AI Operating System: Why Companies Need an AI Foundation Layer
The AI Operating System: Why Companies Need an AI Foundation Layer
05 Jan, 2026 | 16 Mins read

A financial services firm spent eight months building an AI-powered document analysis system. When it came time to deploy, they discovered their retrieval system had no governance layer, their agent h

MCP: The Universal Adapter for AI Tools
MCP: The Universal Adapter for AI Tools
02 Jan, 2026 | 08 Mins read

Pack your bags. You are in Berlin with a US laptop and a German outlet. Your charger works fine, but the plug does not. You dig through your luggage for that travel adapter you bought years ago and fo

Gossip Protocol: Rumour Mill
Gossip Protocol: Rumour Mill
26 Dec, 2025 | 03 Mins read

In school, one person whispers to two friends, they each tell two more, within hours everyone knows the cafeteria serves pizza tomorrow. The gossip protocol works identically: nodes randomly share inf

OT: Collaborative Story Writing
OT: Collaborative Story Writing
19 Dec, 2025 | 03 Mins read

Friends writing a story together, each with their own copy. Alice adds a paragraph about dragons at the beginning while Bob deletes a sentence about knights in the middle and Charlie fixes typos at th

2025 Year-in-Review & 2026 Trends in Data & AI Architecture
2025 Year-in-Review & 2026 Trends in Data & AI Architecture
19 Dec, 2025 | 03 Mins read

2025 was the year AI moved from experimentation to industrialization. While 2024 saw the explosion of generative AI capabilities, 2025 was about making those capabilities production-ready, cost-effect

Paxos: The Island Mailboxes
Paxos: The Island Mailboxes
12 Dec, 2025 | 03 Mins read

Remote islands must agree on decisions—when to hold festivals, which trading routes to use, who leads the council. Messages travel by boat, boats sink, islanders leave for fishing trips. How reach agr