Technical Debt & Economics
86 posts filed under Technical Debt & Economics.
The Lift-and-Shift Lie
The cloud migration finished in March. By July the bill was 3x and nothing was faster.
Read →Hard Credit Caps On Cloud DWH Spend
Resource Monitors are uncomfortable on purpose. That's why they save money.
Read →NIS2 Reporting For Data Incidents
NIS2, DORA, and GDPR each want an incident report. Send the same one.
Read →The Batch Window That Ate A Weekend
The six-hour batch was eating one engineer's weekend every two weeks. Nobody had measured it.
Read →AI Act Data Traceability Checklist
The AI Act compliance deadline is August 2026. Your SME doesn't need Atlan to make it.
Read →The Day Our Pipeline Became a Person's Full-Time Job
The day I realized our pipeline had become a person's full-time job.
Read →FinOps for Data Audit Checklist (8 Cost Levers)
Your cloud data bill grew last year. Can anyone explain which workloads drove it?
Read →You have 47 data quality issues. You can fix 5 this quarter. Here's how to pick
You have 47 data quality issues. You can fix 5 this quarter. Here's how to pick the right 5.
Read →Consolidating from 15 tools to 7 in 2026. Three drivers, none of them innovation
Consolidating from 15 tools to 7 in 2026. Three drivers, none of them innovation.
Read →The Dashboard That Took 3 Months: A Process Problem, Not a Complexity Problem
An executive requested a simple revenue dashboard. Three months later, it was live. It should've taken four weeks. Here's what went wrong at …
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