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8 entries tagged “Data”
- AI Data Privacy Is a Plumbing Problem
· 5 min
AI privacy 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
AI Data Pipelines for RAG: ETL With a Retrieval Layer
· 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: Transcript First, Frames Second
· 4 min
I built a video understanding pipeline for support call review. What worked: transcript first, scene-based frame sampling, timestamps on every claim.
llm
ai
data
Data Engineering Patterns: Batch vs. CDC vs. Streaming
· 6 min
Batch vs. CDC vs. streaming ingestion, compared from building financial data pipelines at a fintech startup, and how to pick by real latency needs.
data
metrics
architecture
MLOps Fundamentals: Fix the Basics Before Buying Tools
· 4 min
Most teams buying MLOps tools can't version their training data. Start with dataset versioning, a release checklist, and one monitoring signal.
ai
devops
data
Data Mesh: Fix Data Ownership Before Architecture
· 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 Built at a Fintech Startup
· 6 min
Eleven days before the GDPR deadline: data mapping, consent records, export and erasure pipelines, and the backup problem at a fintech startup.
compliance
privacy
business
Data Pipelines That Survive Production: How I Build Them
· 6 min
Every data pipeline I built at a fintech startup broke. Raw storage, idempotent writes, boundary validation, and output-shape alerts made them recoverable.
data
reliability
architecture