Technical Debt & Economics
60 posts filed under Technical Debt & Economics.
The Migration That Didn't Solve Anything
The most expensive way to avoid fixing your organizational problems: migrate to a new data platform.
Read →60% of Your Cloud Spend Is Waste (Here's Where)
Your data platform is burning money in three places right now. You're probably only looking at one.
Read →The Acquisition Disaster - When Technical Debt Tanks a Deal
Due diligence found 15 "temporary" integrations from 2019 still running in production. The acquisition deal died that afternoon.
Read →From EUR80K/Month Cloud Bill to EUR45K - The Optimization Sprint
This company cut their cloud data bill from EUR80K to EUR45K in 6 weeks. No functionality lost.
Read →Technical Debt Cost Calculation
Slow pipelines are a symptom. The disease is poor architectural decisions nobody revisited.
Read →The Second-System Effect in Data Platforms
Your second data platform will be overengineered. Fred Brooks predicted this in 1975.
Read →Cost-Aware Data Engineering - FinOps for Data
Your data team doesn't know what their pipelines cost. That's the first problem.
Read →Technical Debt Productivity Loss
Every data engineer on your team loses 2 days per week to technical debt. That's time they can't spend building.
Read →The €250K Migration That Didn't Need to Happen
The €250K migration wasn't a technology project. It was an expensive way to avoid hard conversations.
Read →mise en place for data teams
Skip your prep and service falls apart. Every chef knows this. Most data teams learn it the hard way.
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