Migration
25 posts filed under Migration.
Fractional Multi-Client Economics
A company at 40 people needs senior data judgment about 2 days a week. Full-time is the wrong container.
Read →Cloud Provider Lock-In Audit
Single-cloud is a fine strategy. Unpriced lock-in is a negotiating position, and not yours.
Read →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, …
Read →Fractional Architect Series B Audit
Investor technical due diligence has one real question: will this stack survive the growth the round is funding?
Read →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, …
Read →Privacy By Design In Pipelines
Most teams collect everything "just in case," then try to add privacy when an audit looms. By then it's in 40 tables.
Read →The Lift-and-Shift Lie
The cloud migration finished in March. By July the bill was 3x and nothing was faster.
Read →Idempotency In Orchestration Failures
Your pipeline failed at 3am. The on-call engineer is now paid to clean up duplicates.
Read →Contract-First Data For Cross-Team Handoffs
Most cross-team data fights are caused by an undocumented assumption upstream.
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.
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