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8 entries tagged “Data”
- AI Privacy Is a Plumbing Problem, Not a Policy Problem
· 5 min
Privacy in AI systems fails in the details: what gets logged, who can replay prompts, how long artifacts linger. Treat it as infrastructure, not a checkbox.
privacy
ai
data
Your AI Pipeline Is Just ETL With Extra Steps (And That's Fine)
· 5 min
AI data pipelines are ETL with a retrieval layer bolted on. The discipline is the same as always: detect change, chunk intelligently, keep indexes fresh.
data
ai
infrastructure
Video Understanding AI: What Actually Works
· 4 min
I pointed a video understanding pipeline at 200 hours of meeting recordings. The results taught me more about pipeline design than about meetings.
llm
ai
data
Data Engineering Patterns: Batch vs. CDC vs. Streaming
· 6 min
A comparison of data ingestion patterns from building the fintech startup's financial data pipelines, plus when each one actually makes sense.
data
metrics
architecture
Most Teams Are Not Ready for MLOps
· 4 min
MLOps is real, but most teams buying MLOps tooling cannot even version their training data. Fix the basics first.
ai
devops
data
Data Mesh Is an Org Chart Fix, Not a Tech One
· 3 min
Most data problems are ownership problems. Data mesh gets that right. But adopting it as an architecture diagram exercise misses the point entirely.
data
architecture
engineering
GDPR for Engineers: What We Actually Built at a Fintech Startup
· 6 min
Eleven days before the GDPR deadline: the technical work we did at a fintech startup — data mapping, consent storage, erasure pipelines, and the backup problem.
compliance
privacy
business
How I Build Data Pipelines That Actually Survive Production
· 6 min
Every pipeline I've built at the fintech startup broke at some point. Here's the design approach that made them recoverable instead of catastrophic.
data
reliability
architecture