## About Rationale

Rationale is a weekly newsletter at the intersection of **AI infrastructure and platform engineering** — written for the engineers and leaders actually building these systems.

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### What you get every week

Each issue is one argument, made rigorously. One topic, explored with depth, with sources, and a clear point of view on what it means for enterprise engineering teams.

Topics include:
- LLMOps in production — patterns, pitfalls, and what the docs won't tell you
- AI gateway and routing architecture
- Vector database selection for enterprise-scale RAG
- AI readiness frameworks for platform and infrastructure teams
- Cost optimisation for LLM workloads at scale

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### Who writes it

**Arvind** — an AI practitioner studying the technical and strategic layer of AI that most coverage ignores. Currently deep in Claude AI mastery and Harvard's CS50 AI programme.

Not a vendor. Not affiliated with any AI company. Independent analysis only.

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### Who reads it

Platform engineers, infrastructure architects, VPs of Engineering, and CTOs who need rigorous, independent analysis — not hype.

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### Get in touch

Reply to any issue. Every reply comes directly to me.

*— Arvind*