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 Hiring Gap For Senior DEs
87% of tech leaders rate senior data engineer hiring as difficult. Most of them are bidding against AI startups.
Read →Westrum Culture In Data Teams
If your post-mortems start with "who shipped that," your org culture is the bug.
Read →AI Act Data Traceability Checklist
The AI Act compliance deadline is August 2026. Your SME doesn't need Atlan to make it.
Read →Contract-First Data For Cross-Team Handoffs
Most cross-team data fights are caused by an undocumented assumption upstream.
Read →Orchestration Tool Audit For Small Data Teams
Two-engineer data teams keep picking Airflow because it's "industry standard." Six months in, half the DAGs are commented out.
Read →Semantic Layer Is A Consistency Tool, Not A Speed Tool
A semantic layer is a consistency tool. Most teams buy it for speed and end up disappointed.
Read →Software Modernization Is Not Architectural Modernization
Software modernization and architectural modernization are different problems with different fixes.
Read →Brent Is Your Data Engineer (Phoenix Project applied)
Every data team has a Brent. The person every ticket eventually routes through.
Read →The Day Our Pipeline Became a Person's Full-Time Job
The day I realized our pipeline had become a person's full-time job.
Read →FinOps for Data Audit Checklist (8 Cost Levers)
Your cloud data bill grew 40% last year. Your revenue didn't.
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.