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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.

Building trust in AI recommendations — the change management story
Building trust in AI recommendations — the change management story
28 Jul, 2026 | 06 Mins read

A consumer goods company built an AI system that recommended reorder quantities for 12,000 SKUs across 340 distribution points. The system optimized for a multi-objective function that balanced invent

AI in the Software Development Lifecycle: From Code Review to Deployment
AI in the Software Development Lifecycle: From Code Review to Deployment
27 Jul, 2026 | 22 Mins read

Code completion gets the attention, but it is the narrowest part of what AI can do in a development workflow. Walk into any team that has shipped software for a few years and they will tell you: writi

The procurement checklist for AI vendors
The procurement checklist for AI vendors
26 Jul, 2026 | 07 Mins read

AI vendor procurement is where organizations make binding commitments that are expensive to unwind. A three-year contract with a model provider locks you into their pricing, their rate limits, their m

The $100B AI infrastructure buildout — who benefits?
The $100B AI infrastructure buildout — who benefits?
25 Jul, 2026 | 03 Mins read

The combined AI infrastructure capital expenditure of the four largest cloud providers exceeded $100 billion in the trailing twelve months. Microsoft, Google, Amazon, and Meta are building data center

Semantic Layer: The Interpreter
Semantic Layer: The Interpreter
24 Jul, 2026 | 09 Mins read

Two executives sit across a table. One speaks Japanese. One speaks German. The interpreter sits between them, translating in both directions. The executives do not need to know each other's languages.

The modern data stack is dead — here's what replaced it
The modern data stack is dead — here's what replaced it
23 Jul, 2026 | 05 Mins read

The modern data stack was a marketing category that outlived its usefulness. Between 2019 and 2023, it described a specific architecture: Fivetran or Airbyte for ingestion, dbt for transformation, Sno

Prompt management tools: PromptLayer, Humanloop, Promptfoo
Prompt management tools: PromptLayer, Humanloop, Promptfoo
22 Jul, 2026 | 05 Mins read

Prompts are code. They have versions, they break when changed carelessly, and they need testing. Yet most teams manage prompts as string literals in source files or as unversioned entries in a databas

Legacy mainframe to cloud-native: the data migration they said was impossible
Legacy mainframe to cloud-native: the data migration they said was impossible
21 Jul, 2026 | 06 Mins read

An insurance company running on an IBM mainframe had accumulated forty years of policy data in VSAM files and DB2 tables. The mainframe processed 600,000 transactions per day across policy administrat

What ancient engineering principles teach us about AI architecture
What ancient engineering principles teach us about AI architecture
20 Jul, 2026 | 05 Mins read

The Pont du Gard in southern France has carried water across the Gardon river valley for two thousand years. It was built without steel reinforcement, without concrete, and without computer-aided stru