Cloud
23 posts filed under Cloud.
Warehouse Or Lakehouse At 40 People
At 40 people, a lakehouse needs someone whose job is running it.
Read →Snowflake Credits Vs Databricks DBUs
Your workload shape decides your Snowflake or Databricks bill far more than the rate card does.
Read →Orchestration Consolidation Matrix
Count the places a job can be scheduled in your data stack. Include the cron on that one VM.
Read →DBR Commit Discounts Math
Every platform vendor offers 20-30% for an annual commit. The discount is real. The forecast underneath it usually isn't.
Read →Cloud Provider Lock-In Audit
Single-cloud is a fine strategy. Unpriced lock-in is a negotiating position, and not yours.
Read →ETL Cost Benchmarks SME
An ETL cost audit cut a small team's bill by roughly a third. Same 4 patterns I always find.
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 →Fractional For Stack Survival
A fintech founder asked me to sanity-check their data stack three weeks before a raise. It wouldn't have survived the investor's technical …
Read →FinOps Maturity For Data Teams
Most data teams know their monthly cloud bill. Far fewer can tell you which euro produced value and which one was pure waste.
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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