Technical Debt & Economics
60 posts filed under Technical Debt & Economics.
The Lift-and-Shift Lie
The cloud migration finished in March. By July the bill was 3x and nothing was faster.
Read →Hard Credit Caps On Cloud DWH Spend
Resource Monitors are uncomfortable on purpose. That's why they save money.
Read →NIS2 Reporting For Data Incidents
NIS2, DORA, and GDPR each want an incident report. Send the same one.
Read →The Batch Window That Ate A Weekend
The six-hour batch was eating one engineer's weekend every two weeks. Nobody had measured it.
Read →AI Act Data Traceability Checklist
The AI Act compliance deadline is August 2026. Your SME doesn't need Atlan to make it.
Read →The Day Our Pipeline Became a Person's Full-Time Job
The day I realized our pipeline had become a person's full-time job.
Read →FinOps for Data Audit Checklist (8 Cost Levers)
Your cloud data bill grew 40% last year. Your revenue didn't.
Read →The 306K Per Million Lines: What Technical Debt Actually Costs
Nobody budgets for technical debt. But it budgets itself - in slow changes, frequent bugs, and engineers who quit.
Read →Status Quo Is Never Free: Why Your 'Do Nothing' Option Has the Biggest Hidden Price
"Do nothing" is never free. One client's "zero cost" status quo was burning 200K a year in workarounds nobody tracked.
Read →The Cloud Cost Optimization Sprint: 45% Reduction in 8 Weeks
This company was burning six figures a year on cloud data - we cut it by 45% in 8 weeks.
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