Deployment Engineering as a Discipline
September 1, 2024
Why getting AI systems into production environments deserves its own field
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Three months of field deployments taught me: the gap between lab and production isn't technical—it's environmental. Temperature swings, vibration, dust, and network flakiness break assumptions faster than any stress test.
Deploy where the work happens. Instrument everything. Build for the conditions that exist, not the ones you wish existed.