Volume 1 - Issue 001
July 2026

Engineering notes for production AI systems.

HexTechGuide is the independent engineering journal of Hex Data Technologies, publishing implementation notes, architecture research, and field reports from the layer where AI infrastructure meets production operations.

We publish the work behind production systems: architecture decisions, operational failures, deployment patterns, and recovery notes.
Current Dispatch

Securing Data in Use: Hardware-Rooted Trust for Confidential AI

An architecture review of confidential AI systems that protect sensitive data during computation using hardware-rooted trust, trusted execution environments, remote attestation, encrypted model delivery, and policy-based key management.

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Research Archive

Latest notes.

Published for engineers, architects, directors, and technical leaders responsible for production systems.

Securing Data in Use: Hardware-Rooted Trust for Confidential AI

An architecture review of confidential AI systems that protect sensitive data during computation using hardware-rooted trust, trusted execution environments, remote attestation, encrypted model delivery, and policy-based key management.

Security Architecture

RAG-Driven Cyberdeception: Building High-Fidelity Adaptive Honeypots

An architecture review of using Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) to build adaptive cyberdeception platforms that generate realistic responses, synthetic assets, and high-fidelity interaction telemetry without exposing production environments.

Security Architecture

Building a Zero-Database Flat-File Publishing Platform with Flask

Designing a lightweight publishing platform does not always require a database or content management system. This article explores a flat-file architecture using Flask, Markdown, and in-memory caching to build a fast, maintainable engineering publication.

Python Systems
Research Domains

Index of work.

01

Production AI

Gateways, RAG, inference APIs, model serving, and GPU workloads.

02

Cloud Architecture

Azure, Terraform, identity, networking, storage, and private endpoints.

03

Kubernetes

AKS, node pools, probes, ingress, scheduling, and recovery.

04

Python Systems

Flask, FastAPI, WSGI, automation, and deployment behavior.

05

Reliability

Logs, metrics, tracing, health checks, incidents, and runbooks.

06

Security

Secrets, RBAC, TLS, network policy, hardening, and least privilege.

07

Architecture Reviews

Design decisions, constraints, patterns, and enterprise tradeoffs.

08

Incident Analysis

Failures, regressions, recoveries, and operational lessons.

Engineering credibility is earned through implementation.

Editorial Mission

HexTechGuide exists to document the technical layer beneath enterprise AI: architecture choices, implementation constraints, operational failures, production code patterns, and recovery practices.

Enterprise Connection

Hex Data Technologies provides advisory and delivery for organizations operating mission-critical AI, cloud, Kubernetes, and reliability systems. HexTechGuide is the public research layer.