Architecture
98 posts filed under Architecture.
Cost of Tribal Knowledge
Nobody sets out to hoard knowledge.
Read →Managers Overseeing 3X More People Than 2017
The average data team manager is overseeing nearly 3X more people than in 2017. Something has to give.
Read →Firefighters vs Pyromaniacs
Your best firefighter might be your worst pyromaniac.
Read →Data Quality Testing Layers
Testing data quality after transformation is like tasting the dish after it's plated. Too late.
Read →Building data platforms for technology instead of teams
The data platform nobody asked for is the data platform nobody uses.
Read →Event-driven architecture coordination tradeoffs
You adopted EDA to reduce dependencies. You just traded runtime coupling for design-time coupling.
Read →Data Architecture vs Data Engineering: What's the Difference?
Architects design the blueprint. Engineers build the system. Hire the wrong one first and you'll hire both twice.
Read →The Alignment Tax: What Misalignment Costs Per Sprint
Your team's velocity isn't slow because they're bad. It's slow because they're building the wrong thing right.
Read →Platform Review: What I Find in Week One
In week one of every platform review, I find the same five problems. Your company probably has at least three.
Read →How to Prioritize Data Requests in 3 Steps
When everything is "high priority," nothing gets done. Here's how to fix your data request backlog in three steps.
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