The Nearshore Engineering Playbook: Insights for 2025 and Beyond
Engineering leaders today are facing a brutal equation: tighter budgets, scarce top-tier talent, and rising expectations for AI-driven products. The pressure to deliver more with less is real. Nearshore software development isn’t a new idea, but it’s evolved. Done...
Balance in Software Development
By Dario Ochoa, QA Engineer at Distillery I’ve been working as a QA for quite a few years, across projects of all kinds. Over time, I keep asking myself: Why do we need testing? Do we really need it? Am I providing value as a QA? Then I see video games crashing on...
Case Study: How Distillery and the Oakland Ballers Made Sports History With AI
When baseball met artificial intelligence, Distillery was behind the build. On September 6, 2025, the Oakland Ballers hosted the first-ever fully AI-managed professional baseball game. In a groundbreaking showcase, every strategic gametime decision, from lineups to...
From Chatbot to Assistant: What’s Next for Enterprise NLQ
Why “answering questions” isn’t enough In most enterprises, conversational AI starts with pilots. A chatbot can answer simple questions, summarize content, or provide quick insights. It’s a helpful step forward, but limited. At scale, teams don’t just need answers....
From Demo to Production: Making NLQ Enterprise-Ready
Why chatbot demos impress, but rarely scale For many enterprises, AI exploration begins with a proof-of-concept. An LLM queries a dataset in plain English, the answers look sharp, and the demo sparks excitement about what’s possible. But when the same approach is...
Why Open Semantics Are the Future of Enterprise AI
The enterprise AI problem nobody talks about AI adoption is no longer about if; it’s about how. Enterprises everywhere are experimenting with large language models (LLMs) and conversational interfaces. But once those experiments move beyond a pilot or...
Legacy Systems Are Quietly Costing You More Than You Think
In 2025, nearly every business claims to be data-driven. Dashboards, AI tools, and cloud platforms dominate the tech stack wish list. But here’s the catch: many of these same companies are still operating on legacy systems built long before modern data expectations...
Why This Startup Prioritized QA – and Doesn’t Regret It
How Attorney Share Scaled Their Platform Without Sacrificing Quality “Our QA engineer from Distillery is an MVP member of our team. They’ve developed deep knowledge of our product and our business. They’re a valuable thought partner when it comes to designing new...