Notes on dataarchitecture.
Short essays on architecture, cost, hiring and AI: one cartoon, one idea, most days of the week. No tutorials, no listicles.
Strategy Debt: When Your Roadmap Has No North Star
A roadmap without a north star is just a to-do list with dates.
Read →The Shadow IT Problem Nobody Admits
Shadow IT isn't a governance failure. It's a service failure.
Read →AI Won't Fix Your Architecture - It Will Amplify It
Every AI initiative is an architecture stress test.
Read →Why Your Lakehouse Became a Swamp
Your lakehouse became a swamp. And it wasn't a technology problem.
Read →40% Maintaining, 20% Innovating - The Technical Debt Math Nobody Talks About
Your engineers spend 40% of their time maintaining yesterday's shortcuts. And you're wondering why your AI initiative isn't moving faster.
Read →Dear Alex - You're Not the Problem, the System Is
Dear Alex, you're not the problem.
Read →The 100k Cloud Migration Mistake
We spent €100k migrating to the cloud. Then we spent €100k migrating back.
Read →Red Flags - Symptoms of Poor Architecture
These five symptoms mean your architecture is working against you. And most leaders miss them.
Read →From Technical Debt to Technical Drag
Stop calling it technical debt. Debt has a balance you can clear. This is permanent friction.
Read →Why More Developers Won't Fix Delivery Problems
You hired ten more developers. Delivery got slower. That's not a paradox, it's physics.
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.