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Edge ML Has a Size Obsession

Edge ML Has a Size Obsession

The industry spent three years compressing models when most edge deployments never needed neural networks. The real bottleneck isn't model size—it's deployment orchestration.

The Bronze Tier is Far From Gold: Avoiding Toxic Assets (And Other Medallion Architecture Lies)

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The Bronze Tier is Far From Gold: Avoiding Toxic Assets (And Other Medallion Architecture Lies)

LET'S SAY you're a hot new drone company. Doing, I don't know, crowd counting at festivals. One 4K camera generates roughly 45 gigabytes of footage per hour. That’s your baseline. Add additional sensors (battery, motor, LiDAR for terrain mapping, thermal imaging, and flight

The Shift Left Nobody's Talking About: When Your Data Stack Becomes the Next X-Acto Knife

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The Shift Left Nobody's Talking About: When Your Data Stack Becomes the Next X-Acto Knife

Data’s 1971 Moment In 1971, knowing how to assemble a magazine spread with an X-Acto knife was a career-defining skill. Art directors spent years mastering the geometry, the wax, the precise cuts. Then desktop publishing arrived. By 1985, Aldus PageMaker shipped on a floppy disk for the Mac, and

WebAssembly 3.0 and the Infrastructure We Actually Need

WebAssembly 3.0 and the Infrastructure We Actually Need

"We've finished the model... when do we get to the value?" Here's what I'm watching happen in real time: DevOps teams are spending $$$$$$ annually on cloud egress fees just to move ML models between environments, and flow data to centralized hosting. Platform

The History of Expanso (Part 5): The Unbreakable Speed Limit

The below is a continuation of the series on the history of Expanso. Today, we're talking about the second of the three unchangeable laws of data - the speed limit. Read the whole series starting from Part 1. The History of Expanso (Part 5): The Unbreakable Speed Limit

What I Saw at Techweek in Seattle

I kicked off the week with a coffee and a conversation, and the energy was palpable. The first thing that struck me was the sheer scope of ambition. It wasn't just another SaaS/AI week - I saw a week of deep, hard-tech problems being tackled head-on. Ambition