Technical Debt & Economics
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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.
Read →The Alignment Tax: What Misalignment Costs Per Sprint
Your team's velocity isn't slow because they're bad. It's slow because they're building the wrong thing right.
Read →The AI Readiness Checklist Nobody Uses
Every company has an AI roadmap. Almost none have passed their own readiness checklist.
Read →Platform Review: What I Find in Week One
In week one of every platform review, I find the same five problems. Your company probably has at least three.
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