Archive

2026 ¹¹

January ¹¹

Architecture Advisory: The 3 Questions I Ask First

11 January, 2026 · Thomas Nys

Why Your AI Project Failed at the Data Layer

10 January, 2026 · Thomas Nys

Legacy Modernization: Break or Transform

9 January, 2026 · Thomas Nys

Hero Dependency: Why Your Best Work Makes You Replaceable

8 January, 2026 · Thomas Nys

Shadow Data Costs Your Team 8-9 Hours/Week

7 January, 2026 · Thomas Nys

GenAI Risks: The Billion-Euro Wake-Up Call

6 January, 2026 · Thomas Nys

Team Alignment Sprint: 3 Outputs Teams Actually Use

5 January, 2026 · Thomas Nys

You’re Hiring Data Engineers Wrong

4 January, 2026 · Thomas Nys

FinOps Reality Check: 60% Wasted Spend

3 January, 2026 · Thomas Nys

The Genius Developer Anti-Pattern (Reprise)

2 January, 2026 · Thomas Nys

3 Ways to Escape the 40% Maintenance Trap

1 January, 2026 · Thomas Nys

2025 ⁸⁴

December ³¹

The Migration That Took Three Years

31 December, 2025 · Thomas Nys

The Dashboard Nobody Trusted

30 December, 2025 · Thomas Nys

Why Your Data Team Is Burned Out

29 December, 2025 · Thomas Nys

Mapping Architecture to Outcomes

28 December, 2025 · Thomas Nys

Citizen Development Creates Enterprise Debt

27 December, 2025 · Thomas Nys

The Data Platform ROI Nobody Calculates

26 December, 2025 · Thomas Nys

The Architecture Conversation CEOs Avoid

25 December, 2025 · Thomas Nys

When Your Customer Data Lives in 47 Places

24 December, 2025 · Thomas Nys

AI Governance - Why 82% Are Scrambling

23 December, 2025 · Thomas Nys

Cloud Cost Shock - $100B in Waste

22 December, 2025 · Thomas Nys

Data Quality Crisis - 77% Admit Failure

21 December, 2025 · Thomas Nys

Data Quality as Organizational Signal

20 December, 2025 · Thomas Nys

We Hired a 10x Developer. Then We Lost the Team

19 December, 2025 · Thomas Nys

Process Debt Is Worse Than Technical Debt

18 December, 2025 · Thomas Nys

The Tech Lead’s Real Job Isn’t Technical

17 December, 2025 · Thomas Nys

Refactoring Without Stopping Delivery

16 December, 2025 · Thomas Nys

Data Contract Pattern

15 December, 2025 · Thomas Nys

The Expert Beginner Trap

14 December, 2025 · Thomas Nys

Strategy Debt: When Your Roadmap Has No North Star

12 December, 2025 · Thomas Nys

The Shadow IT Problem Nobody Admits

11 December, 2025 · Thomas Nys

AI Won’t Fix Your Architecture - It Will Amplify It

10 December, 2025 · Thomas Nys

Why Your Lakehouse Became a Swamp

10 December, 2025 · Thomas Nys

40% Maintaining, 20% Innovating - The Technical Debt Math Nobody Talks About

9 December, 2025 · Thomas Nys

Dear Alex - You’re Not the Problem, the System Is

8 December, 2025 · Thomas Nys

The 100k Cloud Migration Mistake

7 December, 2025 · Thomas Nys

Red Flags - Symptoms of Poor Architecture

6 December, 2025 · Thomas Nys

From Technical Debt to Technical Drag

5 December, 2025 · Thomas Nys

Why More Developers Won’t Fix Delivery Problems

4 December, 2025 · Thomas Nys

The False Economy of Skipping Architecture Reviews

3 December, 2025 · Thomas Nys

The Genius Developer Anti-Pattern

2 December, 2025 · Thomas Nys

Hidden Cost Multiplier: Technical Debt Compounds Faster Than Financial Debt

1 December, 2025 · Thomas Nys

November ²⁴

Dependencies - Hidden Drags on Progress

30 November, 2025 · Thomas Nys

The Velocity Paradox

29 November, 2025 · Thomas Nys

Why Your Best Engineers Leave - It’s the Architecture

28 November, 2025 · Thomas Nys

Platform as Product - Enabling Team Autonomy

27 November, 2025 · Thomas Nys

The Expensive Lie - We’ll Refactor Later

26 November, 2025 · Thomas Nys

Event-Driven Architecture - Eliminating Integration Pain

25 November, 2025 · Thomas Nys

Connecting Architecture to Business Goals

24 November, 2025 · Thomas Nys

Why MVP Thinking Creates Permanent Debt

23 November, 2025 · Thomas Nys

How Poor Architecture Turns Seniors Into Firefighters

22 November, 2025 · Thomas Nys

Speed-only cultures build hidden debt, not velocity

21 November, 2025 · Thomas Nys

The architecture decisions you can’t reverse

20 November, 2025 · Thomas Nys

Why hiring more developers won’t fix your delivery proble…

19 November, 2025 · Thomas Nys

Most integration pain is self-inflicted

18 November, 2025 · Thomas Nys

Most teams view architecture as code

17 November, 2025 · Thomas Nys

Dependencies are the hidden drag for your delivery speed

15 November, 2025 · Thomas Nys

Communication debt becomes technical debt

14 November, 2025 · Thomas Nys

Tech solutions don’t fix human problems - they magnify them

13 November, 2025 · Thomas Nys

Team structure shapes your delivery speed more than tools

12 November, 2025 · Thomas Nys

Is your architecture ready for AI-driven threats

11 November, 2025 · Thomas Nys

You cannot outrun poor architecture by accelerating delivery

10 November, 2025 · Thomas Nys

If you organise by technology rather than by outcome, you…

6 November, 2025 · Thomas Nys

Effective governance is built in, not bolted on

5 November, 2025 · Thomas Nys

You don’t scale by sprinting harder

4 November, 2025 · Thomas Nys

Most people think constraints limit creativity

3 November, 2025 · Thomas Nys

October ¹⁷

Clarity doesn’t remove complexity;

30 October, 2025 · Thomas Nys

You can’t design great systems without designing how deci…

29 October, 2025 · Thomas Nys

“Faster” alone won’t save anyone

28 October, 2025 · Thomas Nys

Data pipeline reliability is a good proxy for how much ev…

27 October, 2025 · Thomas Nys

Silver bullets sell because uncertainty is uncomfortable

23 October, 2025 · Thomas Nys

If you can’t describe the problem, AI can’t solve it

22 October, 2025 · Thomas Nys

Decision debt keeps you running in circles

21 October, 2025 · Thomas Nys

Specialists make things work

20 October, 2025 · Thomas Nys

Every data flow tells a story.

15 October, 2025 · Thomas Nys

Your architecture mirrors your communication patterns.

14 October, 2025 · Thomas Nys

If your data product doesn’t start with ‘why,’ it will en…

13 October, 2025 · Thomas Nys

If everyone agrees instantly, nobody’s being honest.

9 October, 2025 · Thomas Nys

AI cannot innovate if all you provide it with is precedent.

8 October, 2025 · Thomas Nys

Your real integration layer isn’t code

7 October, 2025 · Thomas Nys

Clarity is cheap. Confusion costs millions.

5 October, 2025 · Thomas Nys

Do you actually know what a “data product” is?

2 October, 2025 · Thomas Nys

Buy vs Build isn’t an IT decision.

1 October, 2025 · Thomas Nys

September ¹²

If all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.

30 September, 2025 · Thomas Nys

Your most challenging problems aren’t technical; they’re …

29 September, 2025 · Thomas Nys

Most teams can’t even list the AI tools they’ve deployed.

27 September, 2025 · Thomas Nys

Hype doesn’t deliver ROI. Solid architecture does.

25 September, 2025 · Thomas Nys

Big bang modernization creates new debt faster than it clear

24 September, 2025 · Thomas Nys

Friction between DataOps and SysOps isn’t about tools.

23 September, 2025 · Thomas Nys