Technical Debt & Economics
89 posts filed under Technical Debt & Economics.
Build Buy Or Duct-Tape Your Pipeline
Some broken pipelines only need duct tape and a ticket with a date on it.
Read →Your Data Debt Isn't Technical
Most of the data debt I see at 40-person companies is three definitions of 'customer' written in SQL.
Read →Snowflake Credits Vs Databricks DBUs
Your workload shape decides your Snowflake or Databricks bill far more than the rate card does.
Read →When A Vendor Retires Your Pricing Tier
Your data platform bill can go up without anyone on your team changing a thing.
Read →Three Numbers That Predict A Rebuild
Dashboard query time, pipeline failures per week, days to first data change. Pull all three this afternoon.
Read →The Rebuild Cost Curve
Every quarter the wrong data foundation stays in place, more of the business gets built on top of it.
Read →Cheap Tools Cost More At Your Stage
The cheapest ingestion tool at 10 engineers is often the most expensive one by 40.
Read →Sizing Your Orchestrator To Your Team, Not Your Ambition
Three engineers maintaining Kubernetes Airflow for 20 DAGs is a sizing mistake, and a common one.
Read →What a Broken Pipeline Actually Costs Per Week
Pull the last four weeks of pipeline incidents and put an hour next to each one. The total is rarely what you guessed.
Read →BigQuery Scan Cost Surprises
LIMIT 10 doesn't reduce what BigQuery scans on an unclustered table. A lot of teams learn that from the invoice.
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