<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>The AZ-Five journal</title><description>Engineering notes from building AZ-Five — lakehouse architecture, honest AI features, one system instead of five vendors.</description><link>https://az-five.com/</link><item><title>How AI text cards keep the model from inventing numbers</title><link>https://az-five.com/blog/ai-text-cards-honest-numbers/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://az-five.com/blog/ai-text-cards-honest-numbers/</guid><description>A narrative dashboard card is only useful if its numbers are true. The design rule that makes that hold — the engine computes, the model narrates.</description><pubDate>Tue, 08 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Why AZ-Five runs on DataFusion and Delta Lake, not ClickHouse</title><link>https://az-five.com/blog/datafusion-delta-not-clickhouse/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://az-five.com/blog/datafusion-delta-not-clickhouse/</guid><description>The architectural bet behind the platform — one open store queried in place, instead of a warehouse plus an OLAP copy — and what it took to make that fast.</description><pubDate>Tue, 08 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item></channel></rss>