Data Mesh in Practice: Ownership Before Tooling
Focusing only on the technical architecture of a data mesh guarantees failure. Success requires genuine team autonomy …
Data Lake Governance: From Swamp to Data Products
Dumping files into S3 without metadata turns a data lake into an unqueryable cost center.
Lakehouse Architecture: Compaction and Operational Reality
Open table formats bring ACID semantics to object storage. But ACID comes with an operational cost most vendors do not …
Vector Databases for Enterprise: pgvector vs Dedicated Stores
Vector databases excel at semantic similarity search. They are terrible general-purpose databases. Know the difference …
RAG Architecture for Production: Retrieval That Ships
RAG prototypes take an afternoon. Production RAG requires rigorous search engineering and systematic retrieval tuning.