Notes on dataarchitecture.
Short essays on architecture, cost, hiring and AI: one cartoon, one idea, most days of the week. No tutorials, no listicles.
Three Places Your Cloud Data Spend Leaks
Your data platform is burning money in three places right now. You're probably only looking at one.
Read →The Acquisition Disaster - When Technical Debt Tanks a Deal
Due diligence found 15 "temporary" integrations from 2019 still running in production. The acquisition deal died that afternoon.
Read →Brent Is Your Senior Data Engineer
Every data team has a Brent. The one person who knows everything. The one person the org can't afford to lose. The one person who's about to …
Read →The Self-Service Analytics Maturity Ladder
"Self-service analytics" at most companies means "we gave everyone PowerBI access and hoped for the best."
Read →The Death of the Full-Stack Data Engineer
Stop hiring full-stack data engineers. They don't exist, and pretending they do is burning your team out.
Read →The Dashboard Nobody Uses (EUR60K Lesson)
Three months of development. EUR60K in cost. Zero daily users. The most expensive screensaver I've ever seen.
Read →The Data Lineage Maturity Model (4 Stages)
You can't fix what you can't trace. Here's the 4-stage lineage maturity model.
Read →The Deployment Pipeline Concept Applied to Data Products
Your data team deploys to production the same way software teams did in 2008. Manually, nervously, with a 1000-step runbook nobody trusts.
Read →The Series B Rescue - Making Data Investor-Ready in 10 Weeks
Due diligence will find your data problems before you do. One company found out the hard way.
Read →CALMS for Data Organizations
The DevOps Handbook has a framework called CALMS. Most data teams only do the A. Here's what they're missing.
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.