Deployment
11 posts filed under Deployment.
Team Complexity Post-MVP
By 20 engineers, most data teams have one person every change waits on. The backlog put them there.
Read →Orchestration Tool Audit For Small Data Teams
Two-engineer data teams keep picking Airflow because it's "industry standard." Six months in, half the DAGs are commented out.
Read →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.
Read →Parts Unlimited" Is Your Data Platform
The Phoenix Project described a company drowning in unplanned work. Gene Kim called it Parts Unlimited. You might recognize the patterns.
Read →We Shipped Fast. We Paid Slowly
The problem isn't shipping fast. It's not being able to fix fast.
Read →Technical Debt Is Like Credit Card Interest - It Compounds
Think of technical debt like a credit card. Your data platform maxed it out years ago. Your engineers? They're stuck paying the minimum …
Read →AI Governance - Why 82% Are Scrambling
Your board wants AI. Your teams are building AI. Your governance? Still stuck in 2019.
Read →Red Flags - Symptoms of Poor Architecture
These five symptoms mean your architecture is working against you. And most leaders miss them.
Read →The False Economy of Skipping Architecture Reviews
Skipping architecture reviews saves weeks. Fixing the consequences costs months.
Read →Hidden Cost Multiplier: Technical Debt Compounds Faster Than Financial Debt
Technical debt compounds faster than financial debt. And nobody tracks the interest rate.
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