Notes on dataarchitecture.
Short essays on architecture, cost, hiring and AI: one cartoon, one idea, most days of the week. No tutorials, no listicles.
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 →The False Economy of Skipping Architecture Reviews
Skipping architecture reviews saves weeks. Fixing the consequences costs months.
Read →The Genius Developer Anti-Pattern
Your best developer might be your biggest risk.
Read →Hidden Cost Multiplier: Technical Debt Compounds Faster Than Financial Debt
Technical debt compounds faster than financial debt. And nobody tracks the interest rate.
Read →Dependencies - Hidden Drags on Progress
Your roadmap isn't delayed by complexity. It's delayed because of coupling.
Read →The Velocity Paradox
Every shortcut you take to move faster becomes a wall you hit at speed.
Read →Why Your Best Engineers Leave - It's the Architecture
Retention isn't an HR problem when your technical debt compounds faster than careers grow.
Read →Platform as Product - Enabling Team Autonomy
Your platform team believes they're building infrastructure, but they're actually running a product company with just one customer segment: …
Read →The Expensive Lie - We'll Refactor Later
"We'll refactor later" isn't a plan. It's a bet that future you will have more time, budget, and political capital than present you.
Read →Want expert eyes on your data architecture?
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