Notes on dataarchitecture.
Short essays on architecture, cost, hiring and AI: one cartoon, one idea, most days of the week. No tutorials, no listicles.
Why Your Best Engineers Leave - It's the Architecture
Retention isn't an HR problem when your technical debt compounds faster than careers grow.
Read →Platform as Product - Enabling Team Autonomy
Your platform team believes they're building infrastructure, but they're actually running a product company with just one customer segment: …
Read →The Expensive Lie - We'll Refactor Later
"We'll refactor later" isn't a plan. It's a bet that future you will have more time, budget, and political capital than present you.
Read →Event-Driven Architecture - Eliminating Integration Pain
Every point-to-point integration you create is a gamble that the future will resemble today. Event-driven architecture recognizes that it …
Read →Connecting Architecture to Business Goals
Architecture without business context is just expensive documentation.
Read →Why MVP Thinking Creates Permanent Debt
You shipped the MVP. The business loved it. Three years later, you're still paying interest.
Read →How Poor Architecture Turns Seniors Into Firefighters
If your top talent spends more time debugging than designing, it's not a talent problem; it's a debt problem.
Read →Speed-only cultures build hidden debt, not velocity
Speed-only cultures build hidden debt, not velocity.
Read →The architecture decisions you can't reverse
The architecture decisions you can't reverse
Read →Why hiring more developers won't fix your delivery proble...
Why hiring more developers won't fix your delivery problems A lack of hands doesn't cause slow delivery. It's a lack of coherence that …
Read →Want expert eyes on your data architecture?
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