Why Research Code Collapses in Production
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Notebooks and scripts work until you need reliability, scale, or someone else to run them. What breaks, why it breaks, and what changes when you're accountable for uptime.
Writing
Short, opinionated pieces by Efe Ertugrul about infrastructure, research systems, and what actually happens when you ship.
Metadata is Infrastructure
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Everyone treats metadata as an afterthought until queries fail, pipelines break, or compliance audits happen. Why metadata design is an engineering problem, not a documentation problem.
Kubernetes is Not Your Bottleneck
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Most performance problems aren't in your orchestration layer. They're in your queries, your data model, or your API design. When K8s actually matters and when it's a distraction.
What Shipping ML Systems Actually Costs
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Training a model is 10% of the work. The other 90% is data pipelines, versioning, monitoring, retraining workflows, and making sure it doesn't fail silently. Real numbers from production systems.
Schema Translation: The Unsexy Work That Unblocks Everything
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How converting XSD to LinkML enabled cross-platform validation for bioimaging metadata. The engineering decisions, the tradeoffs, and why this work matters more than it sounds like it does.