Author · Managing Director, Pexon Romania
Noel Dinger signs posts on the Pexon engineering blog as Managing Director of Pexon Romania S.R.L., mostly on private AI and self-hosted inference, with further posts on Claude in the enterprise and data foundation. This page lists every published post under that byline, newest first, with its area, date and measured reading time.
15 published posts
Newest first. Business areas: Data foundation, Private AI, Claude and Anthropic.
Data foundation · mcp integration
MCP server for enterprise source systems: 100 niche ERP, MES and PLM systems in European industry with no AI connector. How Pexon builds the missing MCP servers.
6 min read
Private AI · workflow automation
n8n vs LangGraph for AI workflows: visual automation builder against agentic graph framework. When drag-and-drop wins and when code-first pays.
4 min read
Private AI · engineering tooling
AI tools for engineers that earn their place in 2026: coding agents, model gateways, observability and evaluation. A practical stack, honestly assessed.
5 min read
Private AI · open source interface
Open WebUI self-hosted: a private ChatGPT-style interface for your own models, with RAG, multi-user access and no data leaving your estate.
5 min read
Private AI · inference serving
Model Hardware Standard: Anthropic's 27 August 2026 research preview for agents on lab devices. MCP is one access path. Open source is the named successor.
5 min read · updated 14 Sept 2026
Claude and Anthropic · cost
Send Claude the same long document twice: prompt caching writes it at 1.25x and reads it at 0.1x inside five minutes. Batch processing is billed at 50 percent.
15 min read · updated 29 Sept 2026
Private AI · inference platform
Azure AI Foundry vs Kubernetes for LLM workloads: managed model serving against self-operated inference on AKS. Cost, control, GPU scaling and when each wins.
6 min read
Private AI · llm gateway
LiteLLM vs OpenRouter: self-hosted gateway with budgets and audit logging against hosted routing with one API key.
5 min read
Private AI · llm observability
MLflow vs Langfuse for LLM observability: experiment tracking and model registry against tracing, evals and production monitoring.
4 min read
Private AI · inference serving
Ollama vs vLLM for LLM serving: developer ergonomics against production throughput. When Ollama is enough, when vLLM pays, and how to run both behind one gateway.
4 min read
Private AI · open weight serving
Qwen hosting on your own hardware: model selection, vLLM vs Ollama setup, GPU sizing and EU data residency.
4 min read
Claude and Anthropic · copilot
3-year TCO: copilot vs own ai platform — Copilot at ~€26/user/month vs. open AI platform at €0.02–0.05/user/day. Breakeven point, hidden costs, option comparison.
12 min read
Claude and Anthropic · cost
Claude token costs are not a stable unit: Anthropic documents that 4.7 and later produce about 30% more tokens for the same text. Compare per task instead.
5 min read
Data foundation
The demo passed on curated files. Permission-aware retrieval fails when the file share has no permission metadata on each chunk. Test that before the next pilot.
12 min read · updated 29 Sept 2026
Private AI
What four-bit and three-bit quantisation cost in accuracy, the KV cache and power arithmetic behind the decision, and how offline retrieval stays permission-aware.
10 min read
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