Notes on dataarchitecture.
Short essays on architecture, cost, hiring and AI: one cartoon, one idea, most days of the week. No tutorials, no listicles.
Ownership Vacuum After First Hire
The junior left in March. In May, marketing's dashboard broke and nobody knew who to call.
Read →Idempotency In Orchestration Failures
Your pipeline failed at 3am. The on-call engineer is now paid to clean up duplicates.
Read →Hard Credit Caps On Cloud DWH Spend
Resource Monitors are uncomfortable on purpose. That's why they save money.
Read →DORA Metrics For Data Pipelines
The DORA metrics work for data teams. Most data teams aren't measuring them.
Read →Conway's Law Pipeline Silos
Two teams sitting in different Slack channels build two pipelines that compute the same metric.
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 →The Hiring Gap For Senior DEs
87% of tech leaders rate senior data engineer hiring as difficult. Most of them are bidding against AI startups.
Read →Westrum Culture In Data Teams
If your post-mortems start with "who shipped that," your org culture is the bug.
Read →AI Act Data Traceability Checklist
The AI Act compliance deadline is August 2026. Your SME doesn't need Atlan to make it.
Read →Want expert eyes on your data architecture?
No pitch. An honest conversation about whether I can help, and what shape it would take if I can.