Data Architecture & Strategy
98 posts filed under Data Architecture & Strategy.
Orchestration Consolidation Matrix
Count the places a job can be scheduled in your data stack. Include the cron on that one VM.
Read →dbt Coalesce Metadata Shift
The description fields in your dbt project used to be read by nobody. Now an agent reads them.
Read →Governance Before AI Act Fines
The provenance record behind an AI feature fits in a YAML file next to the pipeline code.
Read →Rust Is Quietly Becoming the Language of Data Infra
The fastest tools in your data stack are written in a language nobody on your team writes.
Read →Pipeline Novelty Implementation
Novel data projects tend to die between the team that built the prototype and the team stuck running it.
Read →Ownership Before Governance
A 20-page data governance policy with no named owners is a document nobody can enforce.
Read →MTTR Reduction Tactics
A broken pipeline costs you an hour. A wrong number nobody catches costs you a quarter.
Read →Stack Tool Confusion Signs
Nobody wants to be the one who questions the tool the last person bought before they left.
Read →Databases Are Being Redesigned for AI Workloads
Postgres handled it fine. Until the agent started issuing thousands of embedding lookups a second.
Read →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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