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Jul 18, 2026 Fractional & Leadership

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.

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Jul 15, 2026 Platform & Velocity

Series A To B Stack Pivot

The warehouse that carried you to Series A can quietly become the wrong one by Series B.

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Jul 12, 2026 Data Architecture & Strategy

Data Product Canvas Update For AI Consumers

Your newest data consumers don't file tickets. They're AI agents, and they break differently.

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Jul 10, 2026 Organizational Dynamics

Phoenix Project Lessons For DE

The Phoenix Project is 13 years old. Data teams still run their backlogs the way it warns against.

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Jul 7, 2026 Organizational Dynamics

Brooks Law In Data Hires

A scaleup added 3 data engineers to catch up. Delivery got slower for 2 months.

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Jun 19, 2026 Fractional Journey

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 …

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Jun 17, 2026 Data Architecture & Strategy

Lakehouse Convergence Risks

The lakehouse pitch is one platform for raw files and clean tables. The trap is inheriting the data lake's oldest habit: land everything, …

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Jun 14, 2026 Data Architecture & Strategy

Premature Real-Time Tax

Streaming has a cost nobody puts in the business case: the weekly tax of running it after the demo works.

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Jun 11, 2026 Data Architecture & Strategy

Semantic Layer Pitfalls - Invisible Technical Debt

You bought a semantic layer to end the "which number is right" argument. Eighteen months later you have 200 metrics and the same argument, …

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Jun 10, 2026 Technical Debt & Economics

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.

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