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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.

The GDPR audit that reshaped our entire ML pipeline
The GDPR audit that reshaped our entire ML pipeline
07 Jul, 2026 | 05 Mins read

A European fintech with twelve million customers received a GDPR audit notice from their national data protection authority. The audit focused on the company's machine learning pipeline, which powered

The loneliness of being the only data engineer on the team
The loneliness of being the only data engineer on the team
06 Jul, 2026 | 05 Mins read

There is a version of the data engineering career that nobody warns you about. It is not the startup grind or the big-company bureaucracy. It is being the only data engineer on a team of people who do

Building an AI Center of Excellence: Structure, Mandate, and Success Metrics
Building an AI Center of Excellence: Structure, Mandate, and Success Metrics
05 Jul, 2026 | 11 Mins read

Most organizations have attempted some form of AI initiative. Some succeeded and delivered measurable business value. Many failed and produced results that were technically interesting but did not mov

The hidden environmental cost of your RAG pipeline
The hidden environmental cost of your RAG pipeline
04 Jul, 2026 | 03 Mins read

Retrieval-augmented generation is the default architecture for enterprise AI applications that need to ground model outputs in organizational data. The standard RAG pipeline ingests documents, chunks

Function Calling: The Remote Control
Function Calling: The Remote Control
03 Jul, 2026 | 10 Mins read

You press the power button on your remote. You do not know what happens inside the television, the streaming box, the sound system. You do not need to know. The remote sends a command. The devices res

Graph databases for AI: Neo4j vs Amazon Neptune vs ArangoDB
Graph databases for AI: Neo4j vs Amazon Neptune vs ArangoDB
02 Jul, 2026 | 05 Mins read

Graph databases went from niche to essential as AI applications discovered that relationships matter. RAG applications that only search by vector similarity miss the connections between entities. Reco

Prompt Versioning in Git: Prompts as Code, Not Configuration
Prompt Versioning in Git: Prompts as Code, Not Configuration
01 Jul, 2026 | 10 Mins read

Prompts are the most frequently changed component of an AI application. They are updated to fix edge cases, improve output quality, accommodate new use cases, and adapt to model behavior changes. Desp

Consolidating 47 data sources into one knowledge layer
Consolidating 47 data sources into one knowledge layer
01 Jul, 2026 | 05 Mins read

A global professional services firm with 8,000 consultants maintained institutional knowledge across forty-seven separate systems. Project proposals lived in a document management system. Client engag

AI Middleware: The Missing Abstraction Between Your App and the Model
AI Middleware: The Missing Abstraction Between Your App and the Model
30 Jun, 2026 | 09 Mins read

When web applications needed to talk to databases, the industry created ORMs and connection pools. When microservices needed to talk to each other, the industry created API gateways and service meshes