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Notes from the engineering floor

Field notes on data platforms, AI in production, and the operational reality of running both.

15 July 2026 · Engineering
Sizing a Kafka cluster you will not regret
Most Kafka sizing exercises start from throughput. Retention, partition count and the recovery window decide more, and they are the numbers people skip.
24 June 2026 · AI
What “production-ready AI” actually means
The model is the smallest part. Production readiness is an evaluation set, a cost per request, and a defined answer to the question of what happens when the output is wrong.
30 May 2026 · Operations
The hidden cost of a managed database
Managed services are often the right call. The bill that surprises you is rarely the instance — it is egress, backup retention, and the version you are not allowed to stay on.

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