How to Route AI Inference Across Latency, Cost, and Model Fit Simultaneously | Ari Weil, Akamai | TFiR
Ari Weil of Akamai explains how the AI grid orchestrator routes inference workloads across five axes including ...
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Artificial intelligence and machine learning discussions with industry leaders and practitioners. Covering AI infrastructure, large language models, GenAI adoption, MLOps, vector databases, AI security, and enterprise AI strategy from executives building real-world AI systems.
Why AI Inference Costs and Vendor Lock-In Are Now Your Biggest Infrastructure Risk | Swapnil Bhartiya, TFiR
Swapnil Bhartiya breaks down why OpenAI's Jalapeno chip is an infrastructure control story, not a chip story, ...
Why AI-Generated Code Needs a Cloud Sandbox to Be Trustworthy | Waldemar Hummer, LocalStack | TFiR
Waldemar Hummer, CTO at LocalStack, explains why agentic development demands runtime sandbox validation over static analysis, how ...
Why Cloud Spend Now Drives Company Valuation | Peter Maloney, Azul | TFiR
Peter Maloney, CFO and COO at Azul, explains why cloud spend is now a direct input into ...
Why Enterprises Should Stop Building AI Infrastructure Themselves | Richard Borenstein, Mirantis | TFiR
Richard Borenstein of Mirantis explains why enterprises that build AI infrastructure themselves cannot focus on their core ...
How to Govern AI Agents Without Killing Their Usefulness | Miska Kaipiainen, Mirantis | TFiR
Miska Kaipiainen of Mirantis explains how Lens Agent uses Micro VM-based supervised sandboxing, policy-managed traffic, and secrets ...
Why AI Agent Logs Are Not Enough and How to Get Cryptographic Proof | Yaron Schneider, Dapr | TFiR
Dapr 1.18 introduces verifiable execution, signing every workflow history event using SPIFFE-based cryptographic identity. Yaron Schneider explains ...
Why AI Inference Latency Is an Architecture Problem, Not a Tuning Problem | Ari Weil, Akamai | TFiR
Ari Weil of Akamai explains why AI inference latency is a fundamental architectural constraint, how default hyperscaler ...
How to Adopt AI Observability Without Exposing Sensitive Data to Your Vendor | Shahar Azulay, groundcover | TFiR
Shahar Azulay, CEO of groundcover, explains how the bring-your-own-cloud data plane keeps all observability data and AI ...
Why Enterprise AI Infrastructure Cost Models Fail Before Deployment Starts | Rob Hirschfeld, RackN | TFiR
Rob Hirschfeld, CEO of RackN, explains why enterprise infrastructure cost models anchored to historical execution patterns fail ...