Tim’s Substack

Turn Amazon S3 Into an AI-powered Business Solution

AI-based applications and workflows are showing up in headlines and Board rooms, and for good reason: Many companies still struggle with routine…

Sep 18 • 

Tim Wagner

July 2025

Enterprise AI's Biggest Challenges: Memory, Connectivity, and Governance

Turning state-of-the-art AI into enterprise solutions requires not just advanced LLMs capable of multi-step planning across a broad corpus of domains…

Jul 30 • 

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Who Watches the Watchmen: Why only AI can Successfully Monitor and Audit AI Activities

In a prior article, I talked about why AI apps are fundamentally different than all prior applications.

Jul 24 • 

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GraphQL: The Goldilocks API for AI Clients in the Age of MCP

GraphQL is finding new life as a middle ground between the restrictions of fixed REST APIs and the safety and exposure concerns of unlimited SQL…

Jul 21 • 

Tim Wagner

Why are AI Apps Different?

AI-based applications unlike anything that's come before due to their intelligence, expressive power, and self-modifying capabilities.

Jul 18 • 

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Is MCP creating the next generation of data silos?

We’ve all heard the term.

Jul 14 • 

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Is MCP really just a glow up for HTTP?

MCP is arguably the most hyped topic in AI at the moment.

Jul 14 • 

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Iceberg’s “illegal” feature (and how to protect your company from the dangers of MOR files)

Apache Iceberg is a common data storage format.

Jul 14 • 

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Is MCP replacing APIs?

MCP puts sprinkles on HTTP’s ice cream, and that tasty sundae isn’t limited to just AI agents.

Jul 9 • 

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ABI: Artificial Business Intelligence

The next generation of BI tools will be built around AI agents and human language requests.

Jul 3 • 

Tim Wagner

December 2024

Vendia IceBlock: Cross-lake, cross-cloud, multi-party data sharing at terabyte scale

A look under the hood of Vendia's newest ground-breaking innovation

Dec 16, 2024 • 

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April 2024

The citizen developers are coming, part two: What’s still needed for GenAI to disrupt no-code tech?

Part two of this article examines what progress needs to be made before GenAI can fuel the coming generation of citizen developers.

Apr 2, 2024 • 

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