Architecture
118 posts filed under Architecture.
Process Before People Fix
Before you replace the data engineer who seems slow, count how many people can hand them work.
Read →Stack Impact Analysis
Before any stack change I ask how many consumers it touches and whether we can undo it by Friday.
Read →EU SME AI Data Assess
Before your AI feature ships to EU customers, try deleting one customer from everything it reads.
Read →Ownership Before Governance
A 20-page data governance policy with no named owners is a document nobody can enforce.
Read →AI Engineer Shortage Impact
Companies are writing one job ad for three different jobs and calling it an AI data engineer.
Read →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.
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