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Why Your 'AI-Ready' Data Isn't: The Hidden Pipeline Problem Breaking Production AI

Companies spent millions on GPUs and AI talent, only to discover their data pipelines can't actually feed production AI. The revolution isn't waiting for better models—it's waiting for intelligent data pipelines.

Data Movement & Architecture

Your Data Lake is a Write-Only Memory

You're sitting on petabytes of sensor data, but it's faster to put someone in a truck than to query your data lake. Every truck roll that could have been prevented by a query is money burned.

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

The History of Expanso (Part 4): The Mismatch

The below is a continuation of the series on the history of Expanso. Today, we're talking about one of the three unchangeable laws of data - its unrelenting growth. Read the whole series starting from Part 1. The History of Expanso (Part 4): The Mismatch There's

The History of Expanso (Part 3): You Can't Change The Laws of Physics (Much)

The below is a continuation of the series on the history of Expanso. Today, we're talking about the three unchangeable laws of data - it's exponential growth, the speed of light, and global regulations. Read the whole series starting from Part 1. The Three Unchangeable Laws

The History of Expanso (Part 2): Our Core Tenets

The below is a continuation of the series on the history of Expanso. Today, we're talking about the tenets of Expanso. Read the whole series starting from Part 1. The Four Tenets of Sane Data Pipelines In the last post, I explained the origin of Expanso: hitting the

The History of Expanso: It's About the Network (It Always Has Been)

Welcome to our series on the history of Expanso. The Network is the Problem: How Expanso Began The first time the scope of the problem facing tech was super clear, I was at Protocol Labs. We had IPFS storing and serving data at exabyte scale. The storage worked. The catalog

GitOps & Infrastructure

10 Years of Distributed Computing with Kubernetes

A look back at the history of Kubernetes and where it's headed (hint: it's about the data).