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Architectural decisions, patterns, and lessons learned from shipping enterprise software.

July 1, 2026

Private LLM inference for regulated EU teams: self-host, EU-region API, or US-hosted?

A decision-first, tradeoffs-honest guide for engineering and platform leads: when to self-host private LLM inference, when an EU-region API is enough, and when US-hosted is fine — scored by data sensitivity, the AI Act, DORA and GDPR, latency, and real GPU cost — plus the reference stack and the one design decision that keeps every option open.

  • ai
  • data-sovereignty
  • compliance
  • dora
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July 1, 2026

DORA for AI systems: a build checklist for engineering and risk teams

A practitioner's build-checklist for bringing an AI system under DORA: each of the five pillars read as an engineering task — what to write down and what evidence to produce, from the Register of Information to concentration risk and the sovereign inference path that reduces it.

  • compliance
  • ai
  • dora
  • data-sovereignty
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June 13, 2026

ServiceNow CMDB and CSDM foundations that don't rot

Why ServiceNow CMDBs decay over time, and the CSDM, IRE, and governance foundations that keep them accurate.

  • servicenow
  • itsm
  • cmdb
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June 13, 2026

EU-sovereign AI stack: when Mistral + Qdrant beats a US LLM

A decision framework for choosing between an EU-resident AI stack and a US frontier LLM, weighing data residency, GDPR, and the AI Act.

  • ai
  • data-sovereignty
  • rag
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June 13, 2026

The EU AI Act in production: a build checklist for engineering teams

A practitioner's checklist for shipping AI in the EU: risk tiers, GPAI duties, logging, human oversight, and the GDPR overlap.

  • compliance
  • ai
  • eu-ai-act
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