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Production AI and the Pisa Problem: Why Data Foundations Decide Whether Models Stand or Fall

AI has a visibility problem, but not in the way most people think. The models get the spotlight, the keynote demos, the investor excitement, and the polished slide decks. Meanwhile, the work that decides whether AI actually works in production often happens somewhere less glamorous, inside pipelines, data contracts, feature definitions, schema changes, observability dashboards, […]

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Saga Pattern in Apache Flink: When It Works, When It Breaks, and What to Do Instead

Someone came up to me at a conference and asked how they should implement the Saga pattern in Apache Flink and I think this is worth a written blogpost as well. Their team came from a classic microservices architecture, where Sagas had become the standard answer whenever one business transaction crossed several services. Now they

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90 Days Around the World: AI, Business Travel, and What Companies Still Get Wrong

The original plan was never to do a world tour. It just slowly escalated from „one conference and a few customer meetings“ into Dubai, Portugal, Germany, Singapore, Japan, Hawaii, Los Angeles, London, Switzerland, and back to Dubai with enough flight segments to emotionally qualify as cabin crew. Looking back, the most interesting part was not

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AI, Power Consumption, and the Strange Things We Suddenly Consider Worth the Electricity

There is a strange contradiction in modern society that becomes harder to ignore the deeper artificial intelligence moves into everyday life. And no worries, this won’t become a ethical lecture about lifestyle. We became incredibly disciplined about visible consumption. People replace old lightbulbs with LEDs because saving a few watts matters. The Food gets sourced

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