Cloud Architecture
Designing a landing zone before the first workload
Why project hierarchy, identity and network boundaries are cheaper to decide before migration waves begin than after.
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Architecture decisions, data platform engineering and applied AI — written by the people doing the work, for the people who have to live with the result.
Cloud Architecture
Why project hierarchy, identity and network boundaries are cheaper to decide before migration waves begin than after.
7 min read
Data & Analytics
Grounding an AI system requires less exotic infrastructure and more ordinary data discipline than most roadmaps assume.
6 min read
Artificial Intelligence
Without an agreed definition of a good answer, prompt iteration is opinion exchange with a deployment step attached.
5 min read
Three representative engagements — a BigQuery warehouse migration, predictive maintenance on Vertex AI, and generative AI document processing — covering the situation, the decisions and the architecture in each.
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