Ai | Thomas Nys | The Fractional Data Architect

Internal platform product mindset - treating engineering teams as customers

Platform as Product - Enabling Team Autonomy

Event-driven architecture benefits - reducing coordination overhead in integrations

Event-Driven Architecture - Eliminating Integration Pain

Architecture business context - why technical design needs strategic alignment

Connecting Architecture to Business Goals

MVP technical debt trap - hidden interest rates on quick launches

Why MVP Thinking Creates Permanent Debt

Senior engineer burnout - how technical debt turns talent into firefighters

How Poor Architecture Turns Seniors Into Firefighters

Engineering culture and technical debt - speed without quality creates drag

Speed-only cultures build hidden debt, not velocity

Irreversible architecture decisions - recognizing one-way doors in system design

The architecture decisions you can't reverse

Developer headcount vs delivery - why coherence matters more than capacity

Why hiring more developers won't fix your delivery proble...

Integration architecture mistakes - self-inflicted pain from poor API design

Most integration pain is self-inflicted

Architecture beyond code - why system design includes people and process

Most teams view architecture as code