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A nine-point checklist for shipping production-ready AI
1+ day, 8+ hour ago (226+ words) A guide to taking AI agents from prototype to production using retrieval, guardrails, observability, and platform engineering best practices....
Vectors gave us AI search, tensors are going to make it smarter
1+ week, 12+ hour ago (383+ words) If you've paid AI any mind in the last few years, you've heard of vectors. They are easy to understand: A vector is a single, ordered list of numbers that represent something. You can turn a paragraph into a vector,…...
Google splits its TPU line in two for the agentic era
1+ week, 2+ day ago (802+ words) For most of Google's Tensor Processing Unit's (TPU) decade-long history, Google has shipped a single chip per generation " sometimes with variations in its SKUs but based on the same architecture. That same architecture was tasked with pre-training frontier models and…...
Why "good enough" cloud databases are becoming a business risk
2+ week, 2+ day ago (642+ words) A database is like a water heater. When all is well, it just does its job in the background. You don't fantasize about replacing it or envy the one your friend just got. Really, you don't even think about it…...
Model Flop Utilization is the metric Aria Networks says will define the AI infrastructure era
3+ week, 3+ day ago (589+ words) As the global race to provide AI infrastructure services accelerates, Aria Networks claims it has engineered a "fundamentally different approach" to how networks operate and how to maximize token efficiency in the agentic era. Described by Aria Networks as the…...
Pw C's AI agents are now your consultants -- whether you're ready or not
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (671+ words) Pw C is putting its AI agents directly in front of clients and cutting out the traditional back-and-forth with consultants as intermediaries. This is part of the firm's push to reshape the consulting model around AI, not just productivity gains....
From pillars to platform: How open observability data is changing the industry
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (451+ words) As the observability industry pivots from proprietary systems to open frameworks, the traditional "pillars" of metrics, logs, and traces are gone. Instead, with the emergence of integrated data streams and open standards like Open Telemetry, the race is on to…...
The AI blind spot debt: the hidden cost killing your innovation strategy
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (590+ words) In today's AI rush, I've seen even the most disciplined organizations find it nearly impossible to enforce the hard-won lessons of Dev Ops and Dev Sec Ops into AI adoption. These organizations often feel forced to choose between moving fast…...
Why AI-driven operations are pushing governance beyond a compliance issue and into an operational priority
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (322+ words) Board members and senior executives are pushing hard to accelerate AI adoption. As a result, significant numbers of organizations have moved quickly from experimentation to deployment, with 95% of US companies now using generative AI. However, the speed is beginning to…...
The AI Infrastructure crisis: When ambition meets ancient systems
1+ mon, 3+ week ago (665+ words) Imagine attempting to run modern AI workloads on legacy infrastructure introduces structural mismatches in performance, scalability, and architectural design. That's essentially what many companies do when they try to run cutting-edge AI workloads on systems designed for predictable, transactional processing…...