Notes on dataarchitecture.
Short essays on architecture, cost, hiring and AI: one cartoon, one idea, most days of the week. No tutorials, no listicles.
The Silent Data Hire Delay
The first data hire usually lands a funding round later than it should have.
The Silent Data Hire Delay
The first data hire usually lands a funding round later than it should have.
Read →Why I Architect And Build, Not Just Advise
A data architecture meets reality in week two, and someone has to adjust it on the spot.
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 →Startup Stack Vs Scale-Up Stack
About half the data stack that got you to 25 people won't make it to 80. You can guess which half now.
Read →Postgres Or A Real Warehouse First
Postgres can probably carry your analytics longer than you think.
Read →Cheap Tools Cost More At Your Stage
The cheapest ingestion tool at 10 engineers is often the most expensive one by 40.
Read →Why Your Best Engineer Avoids The Data Layer
Watch who picks up the data tickets at a 40-person company. It tells you who owns data.
Read →The Ownership Handoff Checklist
Your only data engineer just handed in their notice. You have about four weeks to get it out of their head.
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 →The Stack You Actually Need At 15 Engineers
At 15 engineers, a data stack with twelve tools is mostly twelve invoices and one tired person.
Read →Want expert eyes on your data architecture?
No pitch. An honest conversation about whether I can help, and what shape it would take if I can.