Hi, I'm Rakesh Madala.
I write techedge.in — field notes on data engineering and applied AI, for the engineers who build the pipelines and the leaders who fund them.
- name
- Rakesh Madala
- writes
- techedge.in — data engineering & applied AI
- also built
- tools.techedge.in — free browser-based data utilities
- focus
- pipelines that survive production, and AI pilots that earn their budget
Most of what ends up here comes out of real work: pipelines that broke in interesting ways, AI pilots that didn't go the way anyone expected, and the quiet decisions — about tooling, architecture, or budget — that only look obvious in hindsight.
What you'll find here
Pipelines & infrastructure
Orchestration, testing, and the unglamorous details that decide whether a system survives contact with production.
Applied AI
What's actually worth building versus what's worth buying — and how to tell the difference before you've spent the budget.
The business side
Decisions written for people who have to defend the spreadsheet, not just the architecture diagram.
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