Api | Thomas Nys | The Fractional Data Architect

Architecture business alignment - translating technical design into outcomes

Mapping Architecture to Outcomes

CEO architecture awareness - technical foundations that shape strategic options

The Architecture Conversation CEOs Avoid

Brooks's Law for data teams - why hiring more engineers slows delivery

Why More Developers Won't Fix Delivery Problems

Technical debt refactoring myth - why teams never find time to fix architecture

The Expensive Lie - We'll Refactor Later

Event-driven architecture benefits - reducing coordination overhead in integrations

Event-Driven Architecture - Eliminating Integration Pain

Senior engineer burnout - how technical debt turns talent into firefighters

How Poor Architecture Turns Seniors Into Firefighters

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

Most integration pain is self-inflicted

AI security architecture - preparing your data systems for emerging threats

Is your architecture ready for AI-driven threats

Data product strategy - why purpose-driven design prevents project failure

If your data product doesn't start with 'why,' it will en...

Integration architecture reality - people and process over APIs and code

Your real integration layer isn't code