Migration
29 posts filed under Migration.
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.
Read →Semantic Layer Is A Consistency Tool, Not A Speed Tool
A semantic layer is a consistency tool. Most teams buy it for speed and end up disappointed.
Read →FinOps for Data Audit Checklist (8 Cost Levers)
Your cloud data bill grew last year. Can anyone explain which workloads drove it?
Read →The Incremental Migration Strategy (Strangler Fig Pattern)
You don't migrate a data platform in one go. You grow the new one around the old one.
Read →The Data Contract That Saved a Product Launch
The data contract didn't save the launch. It saved the three days of firefighting that would have followed.
Read →Data Lineage: From 'Nice to Have' to 'Must Have
Without data lineage, every schema change is a game of "what did we just break."
Read →The Migration That Didn't Solve Anything
The most expensive way to avoid fixing your organizational problems: migrate to a new data platform.
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