Notes on dataarchitecture.
Short essays on architecture, cost, hiring and AI: one cartoon, one idea, most days of the week. No tutorials, no listicles.
FinOps Isn't a Dashboard. It's Architecture.
Nobody chose to keep 7 years of event logs. The default did. You've paid for it every month since.
Read →The Agent That Can Say I Don't Know
The cheapest AI safety feature in 2026: "I don't have current data."
Read →The Lift-and-Shift Lie
The cloud migration finished in March. By July the bill was 3x and nothing was faster.
Read →Ownership Vacuum After First Hire
The junior left in March. In May, marketing's dashboard broke and nobody knew who to call.
Read →Idempotency In Orchestration Failures
Your pipeline failed at 3am. The on-call engineer is now paid to clean up duplicates.
Read →Hard Credit Caps On Cloud DWH Spend
Resource Monitors are uncomfortable on purpose. That's why they save money.
Read →DORA Metrics For Data Pipelines
The DORA metrics work for data teams. Most data teams aren't measuring them.
Read →Conway's Law Pipeline Silos
Two teams sitting in different Slack channels build two pipelines that compute the same metric.
Read →NIS2 Reporting For Data Incidents
NIS2, DORA, and GDPR each want an incident report. Send the same one.
Read →The Batch Window That Ate A Weekend
The six-hour batch was eating one engineer's weekend every two weeks. Nobody had measured it.
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.