Notes on data, AI, IT
and security
No marketing fog. The way I think about real problems with founders and managers.
Sales, service, logistics: where predictive analytics earns its keep
An accurate model is only the beginning. Profit appears where there is an action scenario and a threshold that triggers it.
Containerization on the horizon: the market wants portable application delivery
Why environment drift has become a systemic problem and which approaches are beginning to address it.
API management: when integrations become a managed portfolio
Interfaces need versioning, documentation and owners - otherwise each new integration adds fragility instead of capability.
Processing speed as an argument: what faster data computation changes
Data engineering is getting a new balance between batch and faster processing - and that changes which problems become solvable at all.
Industrial Internet: when manufacturing starts speaking like a platform
Not about the buzzword - about telemetry, failure predictability and process integration, and what actually changes when industrial equipment starts transmitting data.
Passwords, managers, SSO: what actually reduces risk
Why access management without convenience does not scale - and how to find the balance between security and what people will actually use.
Trusting the cloud: questions you should ask your provider
Where your data actually lives, who can see it, and what you can actually verify - before these questions become urgent.
word2vec and the new semantics of search: why text collections will soon think in proximity
Vector word representations open a new level of search, matching, and recommendations. What this means for companies that hold large text collections.
Critical infrastructure security as a leadership agenda, not an admin task
Protection of critical infrastructure is moving to the risk management level. Why this decision can no longer be delegated to system administrators.
The critical data map: which datasets actually hold an operating company together
Management does not need all data - it needs a list of the information pillars of the business. How to find those pillars and what to do with them.
From logs to metrics and back: building observability without noise
Not all events are equally useful. How to design system observability so it produces signal rather than just another stream of garbage.
DevOps before DevOps: why release speed is becoming an infrastructure topic
Manual releases are already starting to lose to machine delivery discipline. Why deployment speed is not a startup privilege but a competitive factor.