Architecture
112 posts filed under Architecture.
Data Mesh Readiness For 50+
A 60-person scaleup asked me to design their data mesh. After the readiness check, we kept the central team.
Read →Leadership Debt Compounds
Tech debt gets a backlog and a budget. Leadership debt gets a shrug, and it compounds faster.
Read →Platform Fragility Post-Organic
Before the term sheet, a CTO asked for a modularity audit. The feared rewrite turned out to be 6 seams.
Read →Governance Added Late Fix
The data lake had 300 datasets and no owner list. The audit notice gave us 4 months.
Read →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.
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