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Practical AI engineering writing for founders and technical teams who need sharper AI strategy, better product delivery, and a developer who can turn business automation ideas into shipped systems.
A production war story: the root disk hit 94% with hours to spare before an army of voice agents went live. How I moved a 136 GB InnoDB table to a spare volume with zero data loss, using MySQL 8.0 innodb_directories, not a symlink.
The real skill stack behind AI automation: no-code tools, programming, SQL, system design, security, prompt engineering, LLM observability, and RAG, plus the order to learn them in.
A SuiteCRM case study: converting accepted quotes to orders, invoicing order deltas, and detecting supplemental invoices and credit notes.
A SuiteCRM migration case study: Docker, Google SSO, calendar sync, OAuth, multilingual fields, and production-ready CRM infrastructure.
How AI engineering, foundation models, and automation create measurable ROI, plus where to invest first and how to ship practical AI.