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Field notes from our teams — what's working in production, what we've learned the hard way, and where enterprise technology is heading next.

AI
Featured · AI & ML

The untold story: building a production-ready AI stack on GCP with Feast.

Prestanda's journey wiring a real feature store into a CI/CD and Kubernetes pipeline on Google Cloud — the architecture decisions, the trade-offs, and what it takes to make AI reliable in production.

PBy Prestanda Consulting
Sep 2025 · 11 min read
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Salesforce

What drives the cost of a Salesforce implementation.

Every answer online stops at "it depends". The seven variables that actually move the number — and what a low quote usually leaves out.

Aug 2026 · 8 min Read article
SF
Salesforce

Top Salesforce implementation partners in the USA.

Salesforce retired its four-tier partner programme in March 2026. A current guide to the firms, what tier actually tells you, and the questions that separate them.

Sep 2026 · 11 min Read article
SF
Salesforce

Salesforce data migration: a complete guide.

Most migrations don't fail during the load — they fail three weeks later. Load order, audit fields, automation and the failures that surface after go-live.

Aug 2026 · 9 min Read article
BV
AI & ML

Measuring the business value of AI agents: a practical framework.

A four-rung value ladder from activity to business value, a five-level evidence maturity model, and a built-in skeptic that challenges inflated claims.

Jul 2026 · 6 min Read article
RAG
AI & ML

How we built a fully private RAG system on Google Chat.

Hybrid retrieval, reciprocal-rank fusion, exact message provenance and 100% abstention on trick questions — running entirely on-premises.

Jul 2026 · 7 min Read article
AX
AI & ML

Inside Auralis: an AI agent architecture that runs without the cloud.

Windmill, Supabase, Ollama and LangGraph combined into a sovereign platform — and why deterministic orchestration should wrap probabilistic agents.

Jul 2026 · 7 min Read article
SD
Engineering

Schema drift almost killed our AI pipeline — here's how we made it bulletproof.

Part 1. A silent schema change broke everything downstream. The detection, the guardrails and the fix that made our data pipeline resilient.

Sep 2025 · 8 min Read article
DD
AI & ML

Part 2: data drift is silently breaking your AI models — and how we caught it early.

Your model can rot while every test still passes. How we instrumented drift detection to catch degradation before it reached users.

Sep 2025 · 9 min Read article
10x
AI & ML

How We Made Our AI 10x More Reliable Without Changing a Single Line of Code

Reliability often isn't a model problem; it's a data problem. The pipeline and validation changes that made our predictions trustworthy.

Oct 8, 2025 · 3 min Read article
AI
AI & ML

From Data to Math to Model: The Real AI Work No One Talks About

The glamorous part is the model. The work that actually decides success happens long before — in the data and the maths underneath it.

Oct 20, 2025 · 5 min Read article
PG
Engineering

300 million records, one Postgres database, zero downtime.

Smart partitioning that conquers enterprise scale. How we restructured a massive Postgres database without taking the product offline.

Oct 2025 · 9 min Read article
100M
Engineering

Architecting for chaos: scaling Heroku APIs, dynos and Redis to 100M real-time requests.

What it really takes to push a Heroku stack to nine-figure traffic — the bottlenecks we hit and the architecture that held under load.

Oct 2025 · 10 min Read article
UX
Strategy & UX

The UX Formula U.S. Enterprises Swear By - Prestanda Consulting’s Double Diamond Approach

Credibility drives genuine conversions. How Prestanda's Double Diamond process turns enterprise UX from guesswork into a repeatable system.

Oct 15, 2025 · 4 min Read article