Corpus Design Principles for AI Systems
Many AI discussions focus on model selection, prompting techniques, vector databases, and agent frameworks.
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- 2026-06-06
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John Walpole Professional Profile
John Walpole builds practical AI, automation, and reliability systems with an emphasis on grounded retrieval, explainability, source quality, and operational maturity.
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- 2026-07-26
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Kubernetes Outage Caused by Capacity Provisioning Failure
A production Kubernetes environment experienced a service outage following a node provisioning configuration change.
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- 2026-06-04
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Operational AI and the Importance of Trust
Much of the discussion around artificial intelligence focuses on model size, benchmark scores, reasoning capabilities, and rapid feature development.
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- 2026-06-04
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Operational Intelligence Platform
Engineering and operations teams often lose time searching across scattered knowledge sources when troubleshooting systems, reviewing changes, responding to incidents, or answering operational questions.
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- 2026-06-04
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RAG vs Fine-Tuning: Choosing the Right Tool for the Problem
One of the most common questions in modern AI architecture is:
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- 2026-06-04
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Retrieval-Augmented Generation Architecture
One of the most common failure modes of modern AI systems is presenting confident answers without sufficient grounding in trusted information.
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- 2026-06-04
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The Ethics of AI: Code, Control, and Consequence
As artificial intelligence becomes increasingly integrated into software development, operations, infrastructure, and business processes, ethical considerations become difficult to ignore.
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- 2026-06-06
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Workflow-Oriented AI Systems with LangGraph
Many AI applications are built around a simple interaction model:
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- 2026-06-04
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