The CTO Advisor
Keith Townsend
A conversation geared toward the CTO or Infrastructure Architect. Shows topics focus on future technologies and keeping today's infrastructure in-line with business requirements.
Recent Episodes
Layer2C Labs 001: Borrow the Vendor’s Plumbing, Not Its Judgment
Aug 24, 2026Keith Townsend presents Layer2C Labs 001, a technical deep dive into building a retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) pipeline over 13 years of Tech Field Day transcripts (237,000 segments). He compares a hybrid architecture—AWS managed data plane (Titan embeddings, S3 Vectors) with local NVIDIA DGX Spark compute—against fully cloud-based inference, revealing that while managed services are cheaper and faster, they hide critical control points, particularly in data chunking and segmentation strategy.
Deterministic AI Isn’t the Goal. Deterministic Systems Are.
Jul 29, 2026Adam Jacobs, CEO of Swamp Club, discusses the misconception around deterministic AI and why the real goal is building deterministic systems. Drawing from his experience founding Chef during the DevOps movement, Jacobs explores how AI agents can be architected to produce reliable, repeatable outcomes by separating deterministic workflows from probabilistic reasoning, using testing and validation to ensure consistency.
Your GPUs Aren't Slow. Your Data Path Is
Jul 10, 2026Where HPE Adds Value to NVIDIA CPUs
Jul 9, 2026Not All NVIDIA AI Factories Are the Same
Jul 8, 2026Borrow the Vendor's Plumbing, Not Its Judgment | RAG on AWS + NVIDIA DGX Spark
Jun 30, 2026HPE Discover 2026 Hot Take
Jun 18, 202617x Faster AI Inference? Kamiwaza Explains the HPE + NVIDIA Demo
Jun 18, 2026HPE Discover 2026 Keynote Hot Take with Steven Dickens
Jun 16, 2026From Network Engineer to Applied AI: Ryan Booth on the Career Path Nobody Maps Out
Apr 29, 2026
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