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Fullstack Development

6 articles

Building production-grade data products: APIs, pipelines, dashboards, and deployment architectures. From prototype to enterprise systems.

13 min

One training monorepo, or a repo per model?

Seven ML products, one retail team, and the question of whether to consolidate training into a single Vertex-native monorepo. The answer is conditional, and the condition is the whole point.

Jul 28
11 min

The Hidden Cost of Precision in Operational AI

Enterprise AI systems often work at the first level of granularity, then become fragile when the business asks for more precision. A field lesson from pharmaceutical supply optimization on why incremental architectures matter.

May 18
8 min

Real Latency vs Perceived Latency in GenAI Systems

Raw latency and perceived latency are different engineering problems. Production GenAI systems feel fast when they expose progress early, overlap backend work, and avoid silent waiting.

May 13
12 min

Why LLM-Only Parsing Breaks in Production — And What to Do Instead

LLMs can extract structured data from anything — until they cannot. This article documents the failure modes of LLM-only parsing in production pipelines, and presents a layered architecture where determinism comes first and the LLM is used only where it is structurally irreplaceable.

Mar 25
6 min

Stop Talking About Agentic Commerce. Start With Agentic RAG.

Most companies are not ready for autonomous commerce agents. The practical starting point is Agentic RAG: systems that retrieve business context, reason over it, and produce decision-ready outputs.

Mar 18
9 min

End-to-End Marketing Mix Model Architecture: From Data Pipeline to Optimization API

A comprehensive guide to deploying production-ready Marketing Mix Models—covering data ingestion, model training, cloud deployment, and real-time optimization APIs for budget allocation

Oct 15