Notes on dataarchitecture.

Short essays on architecture, cost, hiring and AI: one cartoon, one idea, most days of the week. No tutorials, no listicles.

A 20-page data governance policy with no named owners is a document nobody can enforce.

AI writes a working pipeline in 10 minutes. Nobody has asked it to be on call for one.

Companies are writing one job ad for three different jobs and calling it an AI data engineer.

A broken pipeline costs you an hour. A wrong number nobody catches costs you a quarter.

NIS2 turned one client's logging gap into a board-level problem inside a week.

A dataset with no owner and no cost ceiling will always be somebody else's problem.

The hybrid teams paying the least tax have two rituals and fewer meetings.

Senior data engineers quit stacks that page them at 3am, and the exit interview says "growth".

Nobody wants to be the one who questions the tool the last person bought before they left.

Every platform vendor offers 20-30% for an annual commit. The discount is real. The forecast underneath it usually isn't.

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