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Your RAG Pipeline Works in Demos. Production Is a Different Story.

Most RAG hallucination complaints are retrieval failures in disguise. Covers chunking strategies for mixed documents, hybrid search with BM25, reranking tradeoffs, and an evaluation framework that goes beyond it seems to work.

March 17, 2026·9 min read
RAGLangChain+4
Data EngineeringFeatured

Your Business Runs on Excel. That Should Scare You.

How logistics and manufacturing companies lose $100K+ per year to manual Excel processes, and the exact cloud architecture that replaces them with automated, auditable pipelines on Databricks, Snowflake, or BigQuery.

March 10, 2026·11 min read
Excel MigrationCloud Automation+5

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AI/ML

The LangGraph State Bug That Cost Us 3 Weeks

LangGraph state management breaks when parallel nodes write to the same key. Covers the fix, retry logic patterns, and testing strategies for non-deterministic agents in production.

March 25, 2026·8 min read
LangGraphAI Agents+4
AI/MLFeatured

Your RAG Pipeline Works in Demos. Production Is a Different Story.

Most RAG hallucination complaints are retrieval failures in disguise. Covers chunking strategies for mixed documents, hybrid search with BM25, reranking tradeoffs, and an evaluation framework that goes beyond it seems to work.

March 17, 2026·9 min read
RAGLangChain+4
Data EngineeringFeatured

Your Business Runs on Excel. That Should Scare You.

How logistics and manufacturing companies lose $100K+ per year to manual Excel processes, and the exact cloud architecture that replaces them with automated, auditable pipelines on Databricks, Snowflake, or BigQuery.

March 10, 2026·11 min read
Excel MigrationCloud Automation+5
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Your AI Agent Is Only as Good as the Data Feeding It

Dirty data breaks AI agents in specific, expensive ways: wrong RAG retrieval, hallucinations from bad context, garbage extraction outputs. Here is what data readiness for AI actually looks like, with a concrete checklist.

March 10, 2026·11 min read
AI AgentsData Quality+4
AI/MLFeatured

AI Agents in Business Processes: 6 Use Cases Already Running in Production

AI agents are processing invoices, triaging support tickets, and catching supply chain anomalies at mid-market companies right now. Here are 6 production patterns, the data infrastructure behind them, and the results teams are reporting.

March 10, 2026·18 min read
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