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EU AI Act August 2 Enforcement: What It Means for You
Back in May, I wrote about the first ever EU wide short term rental regulation, EU 2024/1028, and what it means for STR technology platforms. (Read that piece…
Jeni Tocol
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Privacy-first infrastructure. From the operators building it.
Notes on consented data, enterprise AI platforms, and building what's next - from the DataBillity team.
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Streaming Is Overrated Until It Isn't
I have a confession: we don't run Kafka. Every architecture diagram on the internet has Kafka in it. Ours doesn't. The product works fine. Somewhere along the…
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The "Feature Store" Is Just a Database With Good Manners
Tecton, Feast, Hopsworks. There is a whole product category called "feature stores," and it is well-funded, well-marketed, and well-represented in every ML…
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Shipped vs. Normative: The Architecture Answer Regulated Buyers Actually Need
When you sell into regulated industries - healthcare, financial services, automotive, education - your customer's compliance team will ask for your…
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The lakehouse is fine. The lakehouse is not your AI infrastructure.
I keep meeting AI startups that proudly tell me "we built on top of Snowflake" or "we run on Databricks," and then, two sentences later, explain why their…
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Data contracts are the missing layer in your AI stack
Your data team built schemas. Your AI team built prompts. Nobody built the contract between them - and that's why your AI gives different answers in dev and…
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Stop Asking "What Database Should We Use." Start Asking "What's Our Access Pattern."
Every architecture discussion that starts with "should we use Postgres or Snowflake or Pinecone" has the question backwards. The storage technology isn't the…
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The PRD Has Two Versions: What We Shipped and What We Will Ship
This is an article about a small structural practice that changed how my team makes architectural decisions, how we talk to enterprise buyers during security…
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The STR Technology Industry Has a Compliance Problem Nobody Is Talking About
I'm going to say something that might make some people uncomfortable. The short-term rental technology ecosystem has a massive STR data compliance blind spot.…
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