Architecture
126 posts filed under Architecture.
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.
Read →The Agent That Can Say I Don't Know
The cheapest AI safety feature in 2026: "I don't have current data."
Read →The Lift-and-Shift Lie
The cloud migration finished in March. By July the bill was 3x and nothing was faster.
Read →Conway's Law Pipeline Silos
Two teams sitting in different Slack channels build two pipelines that compute the same metric.
Read →NIS2 Reporting For Data Incidents
NIS2, DORA, and GDPR each want an incident report. Send the same one.
Read →The Batch Window That Ate A Weekend
The six-hour batch was eating one engineer's weekend every two weeks. Nobody had measured it.
Read →Everyone says "people, process, technology." Then they start by picking Snowflak
Everyone says "people, process, technology." Then they start by picking Snowflake.
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