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 Incremental Migration Strategy (Strangler Fig Pattern)
You don't migrate a data platform in one go. You grow the new one around the old one.
Read →Data Observability + Data Catalog: The Convergence
Your data team switches between four tools during an incident. That's about to change.
Read →The Data Contract That Saved a Product Launch
The data contract didn't save the launch. It saved the three days of firefighting that would have followed.
Read →The RACI Nobody Wants to Fill In (And Why That's the Problem)
Everyone agrees on "data ownership." Nobody agrees on who actually owns what.
Read →The Metadata Moment: When 'Where Is This Data?' Costs You Two Engineers
Two full-time equivalents on your data team do nothing but answer questions all day.
Read →The Cloud Cost Optimization Sprint: 45% Reduction in 8 Weeks
This company was burning six figures a year on cloud data - we cut it by 45% in 8 weeks.
Read →Data Lineage: From 'Nice to Have' to 'Must Have
Without data lineage, every schema change is a game of "what did we just break."
Read →The Data Product Roadmap Template (3 Horizons)
Your data roadmap is a wishlist - here's the 3-horizon framework that turns it into strategy.
Read →2026 Data Hiring: From 'Find Unicorns' to 'Build Balanced Teams
The unicorn data engineer doesn't exist - but the balanced data team does.
Read →The "Just Use Excel" Moment (And Why It Happened)
When the CFO opens Excel instead of your dashboard, your data team has already lost.
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.