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 "Just Use Excel" Moment (And Why It Happened)
When the CFO opens Excel instead of your dashboard, your data team has already lost.
Read →Build, Buy, or Partner? The Question Most Data Teams Answer Wrong
Your engineers want to build it, your CFO wants to buy it - here's the framework that settles it in 30 minutes.
Read →The 2x2 That Kills 80% of Data Initiative Debates
The 2x2 matrix isn't new - but most data teams still score "value" completely wrong.
Read →The Fractional Engagement - 2 Days Per Week, EUR120K Impact
A client budgeted for a full-time data architect they couldn't find, so we tried something different.
Read →Data Governance - The Spectrum from Anarchy to Bureaucracy
Your data governance is either too loose to trust or too tight to ship.
Read →The Alerting Hierarchy (Critical, Warning, Info)
If every alert is critical, none of them are.
Read →The Real-Time Data Paradox - Everyone Wants It, Few Need It
90% of "we need real-time" conversations end with a batch job running at midnight.
Read →The Team That Automated Themselves Out of Firefighting
A data team spent 60% of their week doing the same manual tasks - and nobody questioned it for two years.
Read →The Data Strategy One-Pager (What Execs Actually Need)
The best data strategy I've seen fit on a single page.
Read →What the Books Got Wrong About Data
The DevOps playbook assumes you can roll back - data doesn't work that way.
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.