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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.
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
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
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 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
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 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
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
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
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