Architecture
113 posts filed under Architecture.
Fractional For Reg Prep
NIS2 turned one client's logging gap into a board-level problem inside a week.
Read →Hybrid Work Collaboration Tax (Update)
The hybrid teams paying the least tax have two rituals and fewer meetings.
Read →DE Churn From Fragile Stacks
Senior data engineers quit stacks that page them at 3am, and the exit interview says "growth".
Read →Stack Tool Confusion Signs
Nobody wants to be the one who questions the tool the last person bought before they left.
Read →Databases Are Being Redesigned for AI Workloads
Postgres handled it fine. Until the agent started issuing thousands of embedding lookups a second.
Read →Blame Post-Mortem Alt
We changed the questions in the postmortem, and the recurring outage stopped recurring.
Read →Eng Manager Data Questions
Four questions, asked consistently, replaced most of one engineering manager's architecture decisions.
Read →Fractional Multi-Client Economics
A company at 40 people needs senior data judgment about 2 days a week. Full-time is the wrong container.
Read →Cloud Provider Lock-In Audit
Single-cloud is a fine strategy. Unpriced lock-in is a negotiating position, and not yours.
Read →Ownership Vacuum Patterns
Nobody owned the orders table. Everyone had opinions about it in the incident channel.
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