Data Pipeline Observability: Why Your AI Model Fails in Production
The 3:00 AM Incident That Changed Everything It was a Tuesday morning when the alerts started firing. Our recommendation engine, the one that drives 30% of our revenue, had tanked. Accuracy dropped from 94% to 58% overnight. The data science team immediately blamed the model. They started tweaking hyperparameters, re-training on new data, and running diagnostics. Nothing worked. I got pulled into the war room at 3:00 AM. The first thing I asked wasn't "What's wrong with the model?" It was "
