Peak Load Is the Steady State
11 minutes
Peak load used to arrive with a date on the calendar. It arrives now without warning, and the architectures built to survive named events …
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Insights and opinion from the Sakura Sky team.
AI Safety Assurance Is Still Goodwill, Not Evidence
6 minutes
The UN's first scientific assessment of AI says safety assurance still runs on developer goodwill, not verification. Here is what …
Sovereignty Versus Efficiency
11 minutes
Regulated enterprises want hyperscaler economics and sovereign-grade data residency from the same platform, and most end up paying for both …
Activation Is the Hard Part
9 minutes
Most marketing organisations spend on platforms that produce insight and starve the systems that act on it. This post argues that …
Data Costs: Are You a Victim of Your Own Success?
11 minutes
A high-frequency analytical query running against raw object storage scans the entire historical dataset every cycle. The cost compounds …
Consent Is Data Engineering, Not Legal
10 minutes
Marketing teams buy a consent platform and approve a cookie banner, then assume the privacy problem is solved while personal data keeps …
Why Most Marketing Dashboards Lie
7 minutes
Two marketing reports from the same week, drawn from the same source system, can show opposite trends and both be correct. This post sets …
Multi-Tenant Agentic AI on Google Cloud: A Production Walkthrough
25 minutes
A review of Google's multi-tenant agentic AI reference architecture stage by stage, naming trade-offs at each decision point and filling the …
The Single Customer View Project That Actually Ships
7 minutes
Most Single Customer View projects run for years and never produce a customer view anyone trusts. This post identifies the four predictable …
Every Marketing Question Is Eventually a Data Question
6 minutes
Marketing teams keep buying tools to answer questions their underlying data cannot support. This post argues that every senior marketing …
GATE v1.4 Roadmap
6 minutes
A preview of the next GATE release: output validation, break-glass formalisation, OWASP AISVS and MITRE ATLAS alignment, a Rust library, and …
The Regulatory Stack, Part 6: Building Under the CRA - A Reference Architecture
11 minutes
A production-grade reference architecture translating the GATE specification into a live runtime, using Apigee, Envoy Proxy, and …