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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
Lead AI Architect
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
VP of Data Engineering
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
Head of Cloud Infrastructure
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