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Data Engineering

8 posts filed under Data Engineering.

Jun 20, 2026 Data Architecture & Strategy

Pipeline Replay Decision Tree

Most pipelines are designed for the happy path. The first real outage makes recovery the only thing that matters.

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Jun 12, 2026 Organizational Dynamics

Wrong DE Hire Cost Matrix

A wrong data engineering hire runs you about three salaries by the time you count the ramp, the re-hire, and the work that stalled in …

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Apr 14, 2026 Data Architecture & Strategy

The Data Maturity Assessment You Can Do in 30 Minutes

Most maturity assessments take six weeks and a consulting firm. This one takes 30 minutes and a whiteboard.

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Mar 9, 2026 Data Architecture & Strategy

The Deployment Pipeline Concept Applied to Data Products

Your data team deploys to production the same way software teams did in 2008. Manually, nervously, with a 1000-step runbook nobody trusts.

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Feb 13, 2026 Technical Debt & Economics

Cost-Aware Data Engineering - FinOps for Data

Your data team doesn't know what their pipelines cost. That's the first problem.

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Jan 29, 2026 Data Strategy

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.

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Jan 24, 2026 Technical Debt

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.

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Jan 4, 2026 Organizational Dynamics

You're Hiring Data Engineers Wrong

You're hiring data engineers wrong. And your best candidates know it.

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