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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 death of the dashboard: what replaces BI?
The death of the dashboard: what replaces BI?
20 Jun, 2026 | 03 Mins read

The traditional BI dashboard — a grid of charts that a business user opens every morning to check KPIs — is losing its grip on how organizations consume data. The decline is not dramatic. No one decla

Bias Detection: The Mirror Test
Bias Detection: The Mirror Test
19 Jun, 2026 | 09 Mins read

You hold up a mirror to see if there is something on your face. The mirror does not clean your face. It does not tell you how to live. It reflects what is there so you can judge whether what is there

Anatomy of an AI Incident: Post-Mortem of a Model Provider Outage
Anatomy of an AI Incident: Post-Mortem of a Model Provider Outage
19 Jun, 2026 | 09 Mins read

On a Tuesday at 2:14 PM, a major model provider began returning elevated error rates for a specific model endpoint. By 2:31 PM, a customer support platform that depended on that endpoint was producing

Building an Eval Harness That Ships With Every Release
Building an Eval Harness That Ships With Every Release
18 Jun, 2026 | 10 Mins read

A fintech company shipped a prompt update to their underwriting assistant on a Friday afternoon. The update improved response quality on three of four test cases. On Monday, the risk team reported tha

Model serving: vLLM, TGI, Triton — which fits your stack?
Model serving: vLLM, TGI, Triton — which fits your stack?
18 Jun, 2026 | 05 Mins read

Serving a language model in production is an infrastructure problem, not a model problem. The model weights are the same regardless of how you serve them. What differs is throughput (how many requests

Why 'AI engineer' is the fastest-growing job title (and what it means)
Why 'AI engineer' is the fastest-growing job title (and what it means)
17 Jun, 2026 | 04 Mins read

LinkedIn's latest workforce report shows "AI engineer" as the fastest-growing job title for the third consecutive quarter. Job postings containing the title increased 280% year-over-year. The growth r

Data mesh in practice: year 2 retrospective
Data mesh in practice: year 2 retrospective
16 Jun, 2026 | 05 Mins read

An insurance company with $400 million in premium volume adopted data mesh two years ago. The central data team had become a bottleneck. Every business unit — claims, underwriting, actuarial, and dist

The invisible infrastructure: why data plumbing matters more than models
The invisible infrastructure: why data plumbing matters more than models
15 Jun, 2026 | 05 Mins read

A Fortune 500 company hired a team of twelve machine learning engineers and tasked them with building a predictive maintenance system for their manufacturing floor. The ML team spent four months evalu

The 30-day AI readiness assessment
The 30-day AI readiness assessment
14 Jun, 2026 | 07 Mins read

Organizations that skip readiness assessment before investing in AI tend to discover their gaps expensively. A financial services firm spent four months building a customer churn prediction model only