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35 resultsApplied AI & ML — Service Overview
Everything included in our Applied AI engagements: RAG, agents, fine-tuning, evals, and guardrails.
Database Schema Migration Strategies
Expand-contract pattern, zero-downtime migrations, and tooling.
CI/CD Pipeline Design — From Commit to Production
Stages, gates, deployment strategies, and keeping pipelines fast.
Privacy-First Data Design — PII Handling Patterns
Tokenisation, pseudonymisation, encryption at rest, and right-to-deletion workflows.
What is Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)?
A plain-English explanation of RAG: why it beats pure LLM memory for production knowledge systems.
How we run a one-week research spike
The exact process we use to de-risk a technical bet in five days.
Progressive Delivery — Feature Flags, Canary, and Dark Launching
Techniques for releasing software confidently at any scale.
Choosing a vector database: pgvector vs Pinecone vs Weaviate
A practical comparison across dimensions that matter for production RAG systems.
Building a Data Quality Framework
Dimensions of data quality, validation layers, and monitoring in production pipelines.
Can you work with our existing codebase?
Yes — we regularly parachute into production systems.
How long does a typical project take?
Timeline expectations from kick-off to launch.
Elasticsearch Indexing Strategy and Performance
Mapping, sharding, bulk indexing, and query optimization for Elasticsearch.
Schema Registry and Avro for Kafka Data Contracts
Why schema management matters for streaming pipelines and how to implement it.
gRPC Service Design — Protocol Buffers and Production Patterns
Proto file design, streaming, deadlines, interceptors, and error handling.
LLM Guardrails: keeping AI outputs safe in production
Techniques for input/output filtering, content policies, and hallucination mitigation.
Container Registry Management and Image Lifecycle
Tagging conventions, vulnerability scanning, retention policies, and registry options.
Airflow Best Practices for Production Pipelines
Idempotency, backfilling, SLA misses, and common pitfalls to avoid.
Fine-tuning LLMs: when, why, and how
A practical guide to LoRA, QLoRA, and full fine-tuning for production use cases.
Logging Best Practices for Production Services
Structured logging, log levels, correlation IDs, and log aggregation.
Infrastructure as Code for Data Platforms with Terraform
Managing cloud data infrastructure reproducibly with Terraform.
Orchestrating Pipelines with Apache Airflow
DAGs, operators, scheduling, and production best practices for Airflow.
Kubernetes Deployment Patterns for Production Services
Deployments, Services, Ingress, HPA, and resource management.
The Twelve-Factor App — Principles for Modern Services
How the twelve factors apply to real production services today.
DORA Metrics — Measuring Engineering Delivery Performance
Deployment frequency, lead time, MTTR, and change failure rate in practice.
Redis Caching Patterns for Production Applications
Cache-aside, write-through, TTL strategy, and cache invalidation approaches.
Semantic Versioning — MAJOR.MINOR.PATCH in Practice
When to bump each version number and how to communicate breaking changes.
Dependency Management and Supply Chain Security
Lock files, vulnerability scanning, SBOM, and keeping dependencies up to date.
Load Testing with k6
Script a realistic load test, interpret results, and find bottlenecks before they find users.
Testing Strategy for Data Pipelines
Unit tests, integration tests, data contract tests, and regression testing for pipelines.
OpenAPI Spec-First API Development
Write the contract before writing code — benefits, tooling, and workflow.
Feature Flags — Safe Deployment and Gradual Rollout
Types of flags, implementation patterns, and avoiding flag sprawl.
Stream Processing with Apache Flink
Event time vs processing time, windows, stateful operators, and production deployment.
Building a Data Catalog with DataHub
Ingestion, metadata, search, and making your catalog actually useful.
Docker Containerisation Best Practices
Writing efficient Dockerfiles, multi-stage builds, security hardening, and image size reduction.
Our observability stack for production services
Logs, metrics, traces — how we instrument every service we ship.