Notes on dataarchitecture.
Short essays on architecture, cost, hiring and AI: one cartoon, one idea, most days of the week. No tutorials, no listicles.
You're Hiring Data Engineers Wrong
You're hiring data engineers wrong. And your best candidates know it.
Read →FinOps Reality Check: 60% Wasted Spend
Up to 60% of your cloud spend can go to waste. And nobody owns the problem.
Read →The Genius Developer Anti-Pattern (Reprise)
Your best developer isn't your biggest asset. They're your biggest risk.
Read →3 Ways to Escape the 40% Maintenance Trap
Your engineers spend 40% on maintenance. Here's how to get half of that back.
Read →The Migration That Took Three Years
We planned a six-month migration. We finished in three years.
Read →The Dashboard Nobody Trusted
We built the perfect dashboard. Nobody used it.
Read →Why Your Data Team Is Burned Out
The "urgent" request took two hours. The context switch cost four.
Read →Mapping Architecture to Outcomes
The CEO doesn't care about your system design. They care about what it enables.
Read →Citizen Development Creates Enterprise Debt
The app your business team built in a week will cost IT six months to fix.
Read →The Data Platform ROI Nobody Calculates
The CFO asked for the ROI of data. Nobody could answer.
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.