Architecture
107 posts filed under Architecture.
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.
Read →Platform Review: 3-Month ROI for a Series B Startup
Every growing startup hits the same three data problems. Not similar. Identical.
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