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 Engagement That Started As A 10-Day Review
The brief says the dashboards are slow. Day five usually finds the reason nobody asked about.
The Engagement That Started As A 10-Day Review
The brief says the dashboards are slow. Day five usually finds the reason nobody asked about.
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 →Warehouse Or Lakehouse At 40 People
At 40 people, a lakehouse needs someone whose job is running it.
Read →The Dashboard Nobody Trusted
When finance keeps a shadow spreadsheet next to the official dashboard, the spreadsheet is usually right.
Read →Snowflake Credits Vs Databricks DBUs
Your workload shape decides your Snowflake or Databricks bill far more than the rate card does.
Read →Stop Hiring A 'Data Person
Your job post for a 'data person' describes three jobs. Whoever takes it will burn out doing all three.
Read →The Reporting Lag That Signals Outgrowth
Ask whoever builds your monthly report to list every manual step. The list is your platform gap.
Read →When A Vendor Retires Your Pricing Tier
Your data platform bill can go up without anyone on your team changing a thing.
Read →The Three-Layer Rule For Small Teams
I've seen five-person data teams with six warehouse layers. Nobody could say which one finance reads.
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 →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.