Notes on dataarchitecture.

Short essays on architecture, cost, hiring and AI: one cartoon, one idea, most days of the week. No tutorials, no listicles.

Fractional For Reg Prep

NIS2 turned one client's logging gap into a board-level problem inside a week.

NIS2 turned one client's logging gap into a board-level problem inside a week.

A dataset with no owner and no cost ceiling will always be somebody else's problem.

The hybrid teams paying the least tax have two rituals and fewer meetings.

Senior data engineers quit stacks that page them at 3am, and the exit interview says "growth".

Nobody wants to be the one who questions the tool the last person bought before they left.

Every platform vendor offers 20-30% for an annual commit. The discount is real. The forecast underneath it usually isn't.

A backend deploy broke the data pipeline for the third time this quarter. Both teams had done their jobs correctly.

A client built the same data inventory twice in 18 months. The first one was for the auditor.

Postgres handled it fine. Until the agent started issuing thousands of embedding lookups a second.

We changed the questions in the postmortem, and the recurring outage stopped recurring.

No pitch. An honest conversation about whether I can help, and what shape it would take if I can.