Architecture
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Five Questions Before Your First Warehouse
The warehouse demo shows a fast query on clean data. Month six looks different.
Read →Build Buy Or Duct-Tape Your Pipeline
Some broken pipelines only need duct tape and a ticket with a date on it.
Read →Snowflake Credits Vs Databricks DBUs
Your workload shape decides your Snowflake or Databricks bill far more than the rate card does.
Read →The Silent Data Hire Delay
The first data hire usually lands a funding round later than it should have.
Read →Why I Architect And Build, Not Just Advise
A data architecture meets reality in week two, and someone has to adjust it on the spot.
Read →Why Your Best Engineer Avoids The Data Layer
Watch who picks up the data tickets at a 40-person company. It tells you who owns data.
Read →The Ownership Handoff Checklist
Your only data engineer just handed in their notice. You have about four weeks to get it out of their head.
Read →The Stack You Actually Need At 15 Engineers
At 15 engineers, a data stack with twelve tools is mostly twelve invoices and one tired person.
Read →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.
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