Platform & Velocity
22 posts filed under Platform & Velocity.
Process Before People Fix
Before you replace the data engineer who seems slow, count how many people can hand them work.
Read →Scaleup Debt Economics
A CTO wanted a full platform rewrite before the next raise. 8 weeks of tickets pointed at two components.
Read →DE Churn From Fragile Stacks
Senior data engineers quit stacks that page them at 3am, and the exit interview says "growth".
Read →Platform Evolution Funding Map
Data platform changes have a good window and a bad one. Funding milestones tell you which is which.
Read →Series B Hiring Role Matrix
Half the "Head of Data" searches I see are two different jobs wearing one title.
Read →Platform Fragility Post-Organic
Before the term sheet, a CTO asked for a modularity audit. The feared rewrite turned out to be 6 seams.
Read →Series A To B Stack Pivot
The warehouse that carried you to Series A can quietly become the wrong one by Series B.
Read →The Fragile Organic Platform Fix
An e-commerce client's reporting ran on a spreadsheet one person updated by hand every morning. It broke every quarter, always at month-end.
Read →Your data platform has 6 vital signs. Most teams only check 2 of them.
Your data platform has 6 vital signs. Most teams only check 2 of them.
Read →Your data platform has 15 incidents per month. Is that normal or a crisis? Here'
Your data platform has 15 incidents per month. Is that normal or a crisis? Here's the benchmark.
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