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Skyler Thomas

Skyler is Cake's CTO and co-founder. He is an expert in the architecture and design of AI, ML, and Big Data infrastructure on Kubernetes. He has over 15 years of expertise building massively scaled ML systems as a CTO, Chief Architect, and Distinguished Engineer at Fortune 100 enterprises for HPE, MapR, and IBM. He is a frequently requested speaker and presented at numerous AI and Industry conferences including Kubecon, Scale-by-the-Bay, O’reilly AI, Strata Data, Strat AI, OOPSLA, and Java One.

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Why 90% of Agentic RAG Projects Fail (and How Cake Changes That)

TL;DR Most RAG projects stall at 60%: Quick demos are easy to build, but brittle architectures break down before reaching production. The last 40%...

Published 09/25 3 minute read
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How to Build Scalable GenAI Infrastructure in 48 Hours (Yes, Hours)

Learn how Cake helped a team scale GenAI infrastructure in just 48 hours. Secure, observable, and composable, no glue code or rewrites required....

Published 08/25 4 minute read
How to Build an Enterprise AI Stack (That Doesn’t Break at Scale)

How to Build an Enterprise AI Stack (That Doesn’t Break at Scale)

Enterprises are under more pressure than ever to incorporate AI into their workflows. But most are stuck stitching together a stack that was never...

Published 07/25 9 minute read
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The 5 Paths to Enterprise AI (And Why Most Lead to Trouble)

Every AI team eventually hits the same familiar wall: their prototype works great, but production is a nightmare. This is the inevitable disconnect...

Published 07/25 6 minute read
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The High Cost of Sticking with Closed AI

Around the world and across industries, enterprise AI teams routinely face a decision: stick with proprietary platforms or embrace the open source...

Published 07/25 7 minute read
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Top 10 Vector Databases: Choosing the Right One for Your Project

Key takeaways Vector databases are essential infrastructure for modern AI: They power search, memory, and retrieval across RAG, agentic, and...

Published 07/25 7 minute read
Why Cake beats AWS Sagemaker

Why Cake Beats AWS SageMaker for Enterprise AI

Enterprise AI teams are stuck with a tough choice: spend months or years building everything from scratch, rely on cloud vendor platforms like AWS...

Published 06/25 5 minute read
The Future of AI Ops: Exploring the Cake Platform Architecture

The Future of AI Ops: Exploring the Cake Platform Architecture

Cake is an end-to-end environment for managing the entire AI lifecycle, from data engineering and model training, all the way to inference and...

Published 05/25 7 minute read
Why I Co-Founded Cake: Unlocking Frontier AI for Everyone

Why I Co-Founded Cake: Unlocking Frontier AI for Everyone

Today’s funding milestone represents more than just a financial achievement—it embodies a vision born out of personal loss, professional frustration,...

Published 05/25 4 minute read