platform · 6 articles

Why inference at the edge matters for manufacturing AI

Platform decisions look boring from the outside. They look boring until the milliseconds and the data sovereignty rules start to matter. At the VDMA AI summit in Frankfurt today, "…

From sensor data to decisions — the gap nobody draws on the whiteboard

At the VDMA AI summit in Frankfurt today, someone put up a slide showing "sensor data → AI → decision." Clean arrows, confident boxes. I've spent my career on printed circuit board…

Ten minutes to a landing zone, then the paperwork won

The landing zone took ten minutes. Terraform, one `apply`, a clean GCP foundation — networking, projects, an IAM baseline, the lot. This is the part everyone warns you about, and i…

What Apuna is made of

Most practices that work with AI describe what they do. At Apuna, I have done something rarer: published, under Apache-2.0, the actual system we use to do it.

Coding Was the Easy Part

Or: the night I filed an access request to myself.

Why we build on Google Cloud

For AI-adjacent workloads, we build on Google Cloud by preference. The reason is unspectacular: the data paths are short. What sits in BigQuery is one step away from Vertex AI — no…