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Data Architecture & Strategy

89 posts filed under Data Architecture & Strategy.

Aug 14, 2026 Data Architecture & Strategy

Real-Time Failure Modes

Duplicate invoices came from the recovery, not the outage. The retry replayed 40 minutes into a double-counting sink.

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Aug 9, 2026 Data Architecture & Strategy

Observability Blast Radius

A failure that cost one dashboard last year now takes out 40 downstream jobs. The platform grew. The alerts didn't.

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Aug 5, 2026 Data Architecture & Strategy

Data Mesh Readiness For 50+

A 60-person scaleup asked me to design their data mesh. After the readiness check, we kept the central team.

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Jul 31, 2026 Data Architecture & Strategy

BigQuery Vs Snowflake For Ad-Hoc

BigQuery vs Snowflake for ad-hoc work comes down to one choice: pay per scan or pay per minute.

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Jul 19, 2026 Data Architecture & Strategy

Iceberg Is Open. Your Security Model Isn't

An auditor asked who could read the customer table. With three engines on one Iceberg catalog, nobody could answer.

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Jul 16, 2026 Data Architecture & Strategy

AI Modeling Crisis Patterns

Every failed RAG project I've reviewed had the same upstream issue: nobody modeled the data underneath it.

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Jul 12, 2026 Data Architecture & Strategy

Data Product Canvas Update For AI Consumers

Your newest data consumers don't file tickets. They're AI agents, and they break differently.

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Jul 8, 2026 Data Architecture & Strategy

Too Deep Into Snowflake" Is an Architecture Smell

You can measure architecture health by the price of an exit. For one stack I reviewed, it was 18 months.

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Jun 20, 2026 Data Architecture & Strategy

Pipeline Replay Decision Tree

Most pipelines are designed for the happy path. The first real outage makes recovery the only thing that matters.

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Jun 17, 2026 Data Architecture & Strategy

Lakehouse Convergence Risks

The lakehouse pitch is one platform for raw files and clean tables. The trap is inheriting the data lake's oldest habit: land everything, …

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