Simor
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.
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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