Technical Debt & Economics
60 posts filed under Technical Debt & Economics.
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.
Read →The Temporary Pipe That Stayed
A "temporary" sync script ran for 18 months. It was quietly eating 20% of the compute bill.
Read →Data Reliability Over AI Speed
A plain statistical baseline caught model drift before any human would have. It took an afternoon to build.
Read →75% Belgian SMEs On AI Daily
Three in four Belgian SMEs now use AI daily or weekly. Most are running it on data they wouldn't trust for a board report.
Read →Databricks DBU Trap For ETL
Your Databricks bill is mostly DBUs. A lot of those DBUs run ETL that never needed Spark in the first place.
Read →FinOps Maturity For Data Teams
Most data teams know their monthly cloud bill. Far fewer can tell you which euro produced value and which one was pure waste.
Read →Privacy By Design In Pipelines
Most teams collect everything "just in case," then try to add privacy when an audit looms. By then it's in 40 tables.
Read →FinOps Isn't a Dashboard. It's Architecture.
Nobody chose to keep 7 years of event logs. The default did. You've paid for it every month since.
Read →The Agent That Can Say I Don't Know
The cheapest AI safety feature in 2026: "I don't have current data."
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