Case Studies

The Knowledge Base Graveyard: Why Wikis Die

8 of 11 knowledge bases failed within 6 months. The 3 survivors embedded knowledge creation into existing workflows instead of adding separate systems.

The Cost of Your SQL Style: FinOps for Data Teams

Query pattern optimization across 3 Snowflake deployments reduced annual costs from $412,000 to $187,000 without changing business logic or removing features.

Airflow 3.0 Migration: Event-Driven Orchestration

Migrating 47 DAGs to Airflow 3.0 event-driven scheduling reduced median latency by 62% and eliminated 340 idle runs per week.

Cloud Architecture Without Netflix’s Problems

A 14-engineer team cut cloud costs 41% by replacing Netflix-inspired architecture with patterns designed for their actual scale of 340,000 monthly orders.

Security Embedded, Not Bolted On: Golden Paths

Golden path pipelines make secure deployment the default. Vulnerabilities escaping to production dropped from 12 to 1 per quarter while deployments increased 28%.

WordPress as Serious Architecture: A Defense

WordPress configured as headless infrastructure meets enterprise requirements at 57% lower cost than bespoke systems. Here is the architecture that proves it.

Building an LLM Evaluation Pipeline That Outlasts Models

An evaluation pipeline designed as durable infrastructure caught 23 regressions and reduced model migration from 6 weeks to 9 days across 4 model transitions.

Local LLMs as Strategic Infrastructure

A hybrid inference architecture routing between local and cloud models cut costs 67% while eliminating data sovereignty concerns for 45,000 daily healthcare queries.

RAG as Data Infrastructure, Not Feature

Redesigning RAG as foundational data infrastructure reduced per-query costs 75% and improved answer accuracy from 67% to 91% across 2.3 million monthly queries.

Data Systems

SEC Filing Intelligence Pipeline

The SEC Filing Intelligence Pipeline processes 36,791 filings from EDGAR, extracting structured intelligence through a 5-stage Python ETL architecture. The system reduced per-filing analysis by 73% while detecting anomalies manual review missed.