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184 posts filed under Ai.

May 24, 2026 Technical Debt & Economics

Hard Credit Caps On Cloud DWH Spend

Resource Monitors are uncomfortable on purpose. That's why they save money.

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May 23, 2026 Organizational Dynamics

DORA Metrics For Data Pipelines

The DORA metrics work for data teams. Most data teams aren't measuring them.

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May 22, 2026 Data Architecture

Conway's Law Pipeline Silos

Two teams sitting in different Slack channels build two pipelines that compute the same metric.

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May 20, 2026 Technical Debt & Economics

The Batch Window That Ate A Weekend

The six-hour batch was eating one engineer's weekend every two weeks. Nobody had measured it.

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May 19, 2026 Organizational Dynamics

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.

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May 18, 2026 Organizational Dynamics

Westrum Culture In Data Teams

If your post-mortems start with "who shipped that," your org culture is the bug.

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May 17, 2026 Technical Debt & Economics

AI Act Data Traceability Checklist

The AI Act compliance deadline is August 2026. Your SME doesn't need Atlan to make it.

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May 15, 2026 Data Architecture

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.

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May 14, 2026 Data Architecture

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.

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May 13, 2026 Data Architecture

Software Modernization Is Not Architectural Modernization

Software modernization and architectural modernization are different problems with different fixes.

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