Dominique Ronde

Dominique Ronde is a Staff Solution Engineer, PhD candidate in Applied Artificial Intelligence, and author focused on AI, data streaming, Apache Kafka, Apache Flink, and real-time system architecture. With more than 20 years of experience in IT, data platforms, and digital transformation, he helps organizations design reliable, scalable, and practical data systems. On Big Data Pilot, he writes about AI, machine learning, event streaming, software engineering, and the realities of building technology that actually works in production.

Vibe Coding Isn’t Engineering—It’s Playing With Matches in a Server Room

You’ve seen them.The self-declared AI builders who’ve discovered ChatGPT’s code generation and now think they’ve unlocked developer superpowers. They copy, paste, tweak a few lines, and ship an app before your leftovers are warm in the microwave.No Git hygiene. No input validation. No tests. And definitely no clue.But hey—it compiles, so it must be fine,

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If Your AI Use Case Needs Perfect Data, It’s Not a Use Case—It’s a Wishlist

Let’s get something out of the way:Your data isn’t perfect. It never was. It never will be. It’s late. It’s missing. It’s mislabeled. The schema changed without warning. A key field is suddenly NULL for 3,000 rows. And the lookup table you depend on? It got overwritten at 2 a.m. by someone testing a new

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The Hardest Part of Machine Learning Isn’t the Machine Learning

Spend enough time in the AI space and you start to notice a pattern. There’s a lot of talk about modeling—neural architectures, parameter tuning, accuracy curves, and leaderboard rankings. And yet, when you actually try to bring an ML system into production, the modeling phase feels oddly… smooth. Controlled. Even pleasant. Because the real chaos?It

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Real-Time Data Is Real—Your Enterprise Roadmap Isn’t

There’s a disconnect we don’t talk about enough.Data systems have gone real-time.Enterprise planning hasn’t. While Kafka pipes millions of events per second and Flink runs stateful computations in motion, most enterprises are still operating on a roadmap that looks like a spreadsheet and moves like a barge. This isn’t just a pace mismatch—it’s a mindset

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Real-Time AI Isn’t Built in Slides—It’s Built Like a Cockpit

You don’t fly a plane with a keynote. You fly it with systems that work under pressure. There’s something strangely comforting about a well-designed slide deck. It’s clean, it’s abstract, it’s full of possibilities. But here’s the problem: planes don’t fly on possibilities. They fly on systems. On gauges, sensors, feedback loops, and real-time decisions.

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Kafka Isn’t Just a Queue. And Flink Isn’t Just a Buzzword.

Why real-time systems aren’t luxury infrastructure—they’re how smart businesses stay ahead. Let’s get one thing out of the way:Batch is fine—for laundry. Not for decisions. Most companies still move data the same way they moved it in 2005: extract, load, wait, analyze, repeat. It’s comfortable. It’s familiar. But it’s also a few hours—or days—behind what’s

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