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Articles, essays, briefings, and field notes on architecture, data platforms, digital transformation, and AI.

Alfred does its homework before writing a line of code

Engineering

9 Mar 2026 4 min read

Alfred does its homework before writing a line of code

There’s a particular kind of frustration engineers know well: you pick up a Jira ticket and the description reads something like “Fix the thing from the meeting.” No context. No requirements/details.

Machine Learning at scale, what about runtime performance?

Machine Learning

9 Jan 2023 7 min read

Machine Learning at scale, what about runtime performance?

Training ML models is only the first step, when you need to deploy and operate them at scale, you need to ask yourself what are the options to execute the inference in the most efficient way