Architecture
98 posts filed under Architecture.
Iceberg Is Open. Your Security Model Isn't
An auditor asked who could read the customer table. With three engines on one Iceberg catalog, nobody could answer.
Read →Fractional Positioning For BE Startups
A CTO said "that's exactly us" four minutes into the call. The pitch was a description of his company.
Read →EU Reg Overlap Decision Aid
We mapped NIS2, DORA and GDPR incident duties for one client. One incident record fed all three.
Read →The Temporary Pipe That Stayed
A "temporary" sync script ran for 18 months. It was quietly eating 20% of the compute bill.
Read →Too Deep Into Snowflake" Is an Architecture Smell
You can measure architecture health by the price of an exit. For one stack I reviewed, it was 18 months.
Read →FinOps Isn't a Dashboard. It's Architecture.
Nobody chose to keep 7 years of event logs. The default did. You've paid for it every month since.
Read →The Agent That Can Say I Don't Know
The cheapest AI safety feature in 2026: "I don't have current data."
Read →The Lift-and-Shift Lie
The cloud migration finished in March. By July the bill was 3x and nothing was faster.
Read →Conway's Law Pipeline Silos
Two teams sitting in different Slack channels build two pipelines that compute the same metric.
Read →NIS2 Reporting For Data Incidents
NIS2, DORA, and GDPR each want an incident report. Send the same one.
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