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11 posts filed under Budget.

Jun 18, 2026 Technical Debt & Economics

75% Belgian SMEs On AI Daily

Three in four Belgian SMEs now use AI daily or weekly. Most are running it on data they wouldn't trust for a board report.

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Jun 4, 2026 Data Architecture & Strategy

Your AI Initiative Is Blocked by Context, Not Tokens

The team bought more tokens. The agent still gave confident, wrong answers. The bottleneck was never compute.

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May 24, 2026 Technical Debt & Economics

Hard Credit Caps On Cloud DWH Spend

Resource Monitors are uncomfortable on purpose. That's why they save money.

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May 21, 2026 Technical Debt & Economics

NIS2 Reporting For Data Incidents

NIS2, DORA, and GDPR each want an incident report. Send the same one.

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Apr 20, 2026 Technical Debt & Economics

The 306K Per Million Lines: What Technical Debt Actually Costs

Nobody budgets for technical debt. But it budgets itself - in slow changes, frequent bugs, and engineers who quit.

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Apr 18, 2026 Technical Debt & Economics

Status Quo Is Never Free: Why Your 'Do Nothing' Option Has the Biggest Hidden Price

"Do nothing" is never free. One client's "zero cost" status quo was burning 200K a year in workarounds nobody tracked.

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Apr 5, 2026 Technical Debt & Economics

The Cloud Cost Optimization Sprint: 45% Reduction in 8 Weeks

This company was burning six figures a year on cloud data - we cut it by 45% in 8 weeks.

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Feb 15, 2026 Technical Debt & Economics

The Second-System Effect in Data Platforms

Your second data platform will be overengineered. Fred Brooks predicted this in 1975.

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Jan 3, 2026 Technical Debt & Economics

FinOps Reality Check: 60% Wasted Spend

Up to 60% of your cloud spend can go to waste. And nobody owns the problem.

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Jan 1, 2026 Technical Debt & Economics

3 Ways to Escape the 40% Maintenance Trap

Your engineers spend 40% on maintenance. Here's how to get half of that back.

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