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201 posts filed under Ai.

Aug 16, 2026 Technical Debt & Economics

ROI Measures For Pipelines

We scored a client's pipelines on cost against consumption. About 1 in 5 had a monthly bill and zero consumers.

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Aug 14, 2026 Data Architecture & Strategy

Real-Time Failure Modes

Duplicate invoices came from the recovery, not the outage. The retry replayed 40 minutes into a double-counting sink.

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Aug 13, 2026 Fractional & Leadership

Fractional Multi-Client Economics

A company at 40 people needs senior data judgment about 2 days a week. Full-time is the wrong container.

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Aug 11, 2026 Organizational Dynamics

Ownership Vacuum Patterns

Nobody owned the orders table. Everyone had opinions about it in the incident channel.

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Aug 10, 2026 Organizational Dynamics

36% Learn AI Via Tools

Your engineers are already learning AI at work. The only question is whether it's sanctioned.

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Aug 9, 2026 Data Architecture & Strategy

Observability Blast Radius

A failure that cost one dashboard last year now takes out 40 downstream jobs. The platform grew. The alerts didn't.

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Aug 8, 2026 Platform & Velocity

Series B Hiring Role Matrix

Half the "Head of Data" searches I see are two different jobs wearing one title.

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Aug 7, 2026 Technical Debt & Economics

AI Data Foundation Check

Every AI roadmap I review gets the same first check: whether the data could go in a board deck unchecked.

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Aug 6, 2026 Organizational Dynamics

Pipeline Full-Time Owner Trap (Year 2 Update)

One pipeline quietly consumed a full data engineer. On a team of 5, that's 20% of capacity feeding one job.

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Aug 5, 2026 Data Architecture & Strategy

Data Mesh Readiness For 50+

A 60-person scaleup asked me to design their data mesh. After the readiness check, we kept the central team.

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