Technical Debt & Economics
74 posts filed under Technical Debt & Economics.
DBR Commit Discounts Math
Every platform vendor offers 20-30% for an annual commit. The discount is real. The forecast underneath it usually isn't.
Read →Compliance Investment ROI
A client built the same data inventory twice in 18 months. The first one was for the auditor.
Read →ROI Measures For Pipelines
We scored a client's pipelines on cost against consumption. About 1 in 5 had a monthly bill and zero consumers.
Read →Cloud Provider Lock-In Audit
Single-cloud is a fine strategy. Unpriced lock-in is a negotiating position, and not yours.
Read →AI Data Foundation Check
Every AI roadmap I review gets the same first check: whether the data could go in a board deck unchecked.
Read →ETL Cost Benchmarks SME
An ETL cost audit cut a small team's bill by roughly a third. Same 4 patterns I always find.
Read →FinTech DORA Data Prep
DORA has applied since January 2025. The data plumbing behind its incident reports is missing at most FinTechs I see.
Read →Governance Added Late Fix
The data lake had 300 datasets and no owner list. The audit notice gave us 4 months.
Read →Cost Of No Data Contracts
A team of 8 data engineers spent roughly 30% of their week negotiating schema changes in Slack.
Read →EU Reg Overlap Decision Aid
We mapped NIS2, DORA and GDPR incident duties for one client. One incident record fed all three.
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