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Preetham Reddy
CEO / Founder at TechFabric · The team
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Databricks and Temporal for durable data and AI systems
When a process stops halfway, the cost shows up weeks later. How we keep business processes and AI agents finishing their work with Temporal and Databricks.
Preetham ReddyReadHow we test models trained on Databricks AI Runtime
How to tell whether a model trained on your own data beats the one in production, what Databricks AI Runtime changes, and when training is worth it.
Preetham ReddyReadAn MCP server for AI agents working loan files
AI agents need access to loan systems, with limits and a record of all they do. How we built that into AutoFabric, our auto refinance platform.
Preetham ReddyReadHow our engineers turn their work into posts with coding agents
Engineers who solve the problems rarely have time to write them up. We built an MCP server so they publish from their coding agent, under the site's checks.
Preetham ReddyReadGoverning AI agents with Databricks and Temporal
Enterprise customers worry about AI agents going rogue. The limits we put on our own agents, and how Databricks and Temporal would carry them to clients.
Preetham ReddyReadMCP Events and Temporal for agents that react to events
An agent that only answers when prompted leaves new events waiting. How we built AutoFabric's agents to act on events safely, and what MCP Events changes.
Preetham ReddyReadReading Delta Lake tables from DuckDB through Unity Catalog
We tried reading our own Databricks tables from DuckDB and none were readable. What that means for sharing lakehouse data with partners and AI agents.
Preetham ReddyReadMuse Wonder: Meta's frontier models for agents
Meta's Muse Wonder says it checks in before acting on anything important. What that would and wouldn't change for the approval gates in agents we build.
Preetham ReddyReadResponsive joins Databricks: what Lakebase gains
Responsive, the SlateDB team, is joining Databricks to work on Lakebase. The two Lakebase limits that shape what we build, and which the news could move.
Preetham ReddyReadOpenCode 2.0 and the open harness as a service
Coding agents' token bills keep growing. What OpenCode 2.0 changes, and the config we'd commit to route routine work to cheaper open-weight models.
Preetham ReddyReadBusiness Central data mirroring to Fabric, read from Databricks
Microsoft announced Business Central mirroring of any table into Fabric, with no export to maintain. Where it fits a Databricks build, and where it stops.
Preetham ReddyReadHow we moved our AI agents to Cloudflare's web search and web fetch
AI agents need search and reading that are cheap and don't break. Why ours switched to Cloudflare's web search and web fetch, and what it fixed.
Preetham ReddyReadHow we closed a link-following security hole in our AI agents
An AI agent that reads links from email or news feeds can be pointed at private addresses. How we closed the main path once, in the framework our agents run on.
Preetham ReddyReadHow we scaled programmatic SEO with AI agents
Our 81 city pages held through Google's September 2026 spam update while our agent notes fell out. What kept them indexed, and the checks AI drafts pass.
Preetham ReddyReadHow we check our drafts with AI decision models
Approving a claim or routing a ticket is a call software repeats all day. Why Decision-1 checks our posts first, and how it compares with Jev, Clef and Kev.
Preetham ReddyReadSupermemory for per-user AI agent memory
Supermemory remembers each person an AI agent talks to. Where we'd use it beside the reviewed memory our own agents keep, and the defaults we'd change.
Preetham ReddyReadHow we split our AI decisions across Cloudflare's three Clef models
Software that approves claims or routes tickets needs every call cheap and repeatable. Where Clef-flash, Clef and Clef-omni each fit, and what each one costs.
Preetham ReddyReadAI voice calls for missing loan data in AutoFabric
When a refinance file stalls on one missing detail, an AI phone call can get it in minutes. How we built calls a lender can prove were allowed, now in a demo.
Preetham ReddyReadMigrating to Databricks without a cutover spreadsheet
How we move Synapse and Snowflake estates onto Databricks with Lakebridge and Airlift. One manufacturing migration took six weeks instead of six months.
Preetham ReddyReadLakebase vs Snowflake Postgres: branching is the difference
Choosing a managed Postgres for apps beside your data platform? Lakebase against Snowflake Postgres on branching, scale to zero and governance. Lakebase wins.
Preetham ReddyReadDecision models in auto refinance: where Jev and Clef fit
Lenders kick back refinance packages over a mismatched odometer or an expired payoff. Where decision models like Jev and Clef catch it, logged on Databricks.
Preetham ReddyReadBusiness Central reporting: built-in, Power BI or lakehouse
Three ways to report on Dynamics 365 Business Central, what each one is good for, the limits Microsoft documents, and how to tell which one you need.
Preetham ReddyReadAn AI governance framework is four answers you can query
The EU moved its high-risk AI deadline to December 2027. What NIST AI RMF, ISO 42001 and the EU AI Act ask, mapped to controls you can run on Databricks.
Preetham ReddyReadPaying frontier prices to rename a variable
Databricks' smart routing sends routine coding-agent work to cheaper models and keeps the agents' traces in Unity Catalog. What it saves, and what to check.
Preetham ReddyReadFour thousand objects and nobody would name the exclusions
Warehouse migrations slip because the exclusions were never written down. The Migration Readiness Sprint inventories the estate before anyone picks a date.
Preetham ReddyReadNobody could tell whether the agent was any good
A team shipped an agent in nine days and argued for two months about whether its answers were right. Write down what a good answer is first.
Preetham ReddyReadDASF - Databricks AI Security Framework
DASF stands for Databricks AI Security Framework. Version 3.0 maps 97 AI risks to 73 controls. What it covers, and how to enforce those controls at runtime.
Preetham ReddyReadUnity Catalog for enterprise data governance
Who can see a row, who changed it, and is an agent held to a person's grants? A Unity Catalog Health Check finds where coverage stops halfway.
Preetham ReddyReadDatabricks AI/BI dashboards and Genie
What Databricks AI/BI is: dashboards plus Genie, which answers plain-English questions with SQL. What changed in 2026, accuracy, and cost.
Preetham ReddyReadFrom data warehouses to data intelligence
How data platforms went from warehouses to lakehouses to data intelligence, and the four platform decisions that are hard to undo later.
Preetham ReddyReadMigrating from Legacy Data Warehouses to Databricks Data & AI Platform
Warehouse migrations slip on scope, not conversion. Two weeks on TechFabric Airlift inventories the estate, agrees exclusions and hands you a wave plan.
Preetham ReddyReadSetting Up Production Ready Infrastructure For Microservices
Service Fabric is Microsoft's microservices orchestrator. Service discovery, fault tolerance and containers, set up for production rather than a demo.
Preetham ReddyReadSecuring microservices on Azure Service Fabric with Traefik
Service Fabric's built-in reverse proxy exposes every microservice in the cluster or none. How Traefik lets you choose which services the world can reach.
Preetham ReddyReadFiber Copilot, a multi-tenant AI platform orchestrated by Temporal
How we designed Fiber Copilot to stand up chatbots and copilots on your own data, in your own cloud, with the parser, vector store and model you choose.
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