Notes on dataarchitecture.
Short essays on architecture, cost, hiring and AI: one cartoon, one idea, most days of the week. No tutorials, no listicles.
Process Debt Is Worse Than Technical Debt
You can refactor code. Try refactoring a six-person approval chain.
Read →The Tech Lead's Real Job Isn't Technical
You got promoted for coding. Now your job isn't to code.
Read →Refactoring Without Stopping Delivery
Refactoring projects fail. Refactoring routines succeed.
Read →Data Contract Pattern
Every Monday, someone's dashboard breaks. Nobody knows why.
Read →The Expert Beginner Trap
The expert beginner knows enough to be confident and not enough to know what they're missing.
Read →Strategy Debt: When Your Roadmap Has No North Star
A roadmap without a north star is just a to-do list with dates.
Read →The Shadow IT Problem Nobody Admits
Shadow IT isn't a governance failure. It's a service failure.
Read →AI Won't Fix Your Architecture - It Will Amplify It
Every AI initiative is an architecture stress test.
Read →Why Your Lakehouse Became a Swamp
Your lakehouse became a swamp. And it wasn't a technology problem.
Read →40% Maintaining, 20% Innovating - The Technical Debt Math Nobody Talks About
Your engineers spend 40% of their time maintaining yesterday's shortcuts. And you're wondering why your AI initiative isn't moving faster.
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.