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Stop Hoarding Prompts: A Pragmatic Guide to AI Privacy & Governance
Why this matters this week If you’re running production AI systems, you’re probably sitting on an unacknowledged liability: unbounded prompt and output logs. In the last 60 days I’ve seen: A mid-size SaaS vendor quietly halt an AI feature because legal discovered they were retaining full customer tickets and prompts indefinitely in an observability tool….
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The Unsexy Reality of Serverless AWS Cost & Reliability
Why this matters this week AWS bills for Lambda, API Gateway, Step Functions, DynamoDB, SQS, EventBridge, Kinesis, CloudWatch, and “misc” just landed for the month. Teams are discovering: A “cheap” serverless migration quietly doubled their spend. P95 latency blew up after a seemingly harmless change to an event-driven workflow. An incident investigation stalled because nobody…
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Cybersecurity By Design: Stop Treating Security As a Retrofit
Why this matters this week Most teams now “have” security: IAM roles, a secrets manager, a CSPM dashboard, SAST in CI, maybe a runbook. Yet when something goes wrong, postmortems keep finding the same root cause: The system was never designed to be secure. Security was bolted on. That gap is widening fast: Identity is…
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Stop Treating Fintech Infra as “Just Another Microservice”
Why this matters this week Three things are converging in fintech infrastructure right now: Real-time everything: Instant payouts, real-time ACH, faster card settlement. Latency budgets are collapsing, but regulatory and fraud constraints are not. Reg pressure shifting left: Regulators increasingly expect systemic controls, not just manual policies and after-the-fact reviews. The infra itself is now…
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Your Models Are Lying to You in Production (You Just Don’t See It Yet)
Why this matters this week Most teams are now “shipping ML,” but what’s actually in production often looks like this: Offline AUC: 0.93 Production monitoring: 2 Prometheus counters and vibes Retraining: “whenever numbers look weird” Cost: “we’ll optimize later, infra is cheap” Then reality hits: Infra bill quietly 3–5x’s because feature pipelines and embeddings are…
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Stop Gluing LLMs to UIs: A Pragmatic Path from RPA to Real AI Automation
Why this matters this week Most teams experimenting with “AI agents” are rediscovering an old lesson: if you bolt an LLM onto a brittle process, you just get a more expensive, more chaotic RPA bot. What is changing in real production systems: Companies are quietly replacing: Screen-scraping RPA with API-native, tool-using AI workflows. One-off copilots…
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