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Field reports, benchmarks, and production lakehouse post-mortems authored by our Principal AI and Data Engineers.

AI Architecture7 min read
CodePlaced Research
Sep 22, 2026

Building Production-Grade RAG Systems in 2026: Lessons from 100M Tokens

Why simple vector search fails in enterprise environments, and how hybrid BM25 + dense embedding re-ranking prevents catastrophic hallucination.

Siddharth Verma
Siddharth Verma
Lead AI Architect
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Data Strategy6 min read
CodePlaced Research
Sep 14, 2026

Modern Data Stack vs All-in-One AI Lakehouse: An Executive Decision Guide

Should your company stitch together 10 different SaaS tools or consolidate into a unified ClickHouse / Databricks engine? Here is the financial and operational trade-off.

Priya Nair
Priya Nair
VP of Data Engineering
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Cloud FinOps5 min read
CodePlaced Research
Aug 29, 2026

How We Cut Cloud Infrastructure Bills by 42% While Tripling Pipeline Throughput

A tactical breakdown of autoscaling rightsizing, ClickHouse query compression, and smart spot instance management implemented for our automotive client.

Aman Gupta
Aman Gupta
Head of Cloud Infrastructure
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