Model
59 posts filed under Model.
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 →Observability Blast Radius
A failure that cost one dashboard last year now takes out 40 downstream jobs. The platform grew. The alerts didn't.
Read →AI Data Foundation Check
Every AI roadmap I review gets the same first check: whether the data could go in a board deck unchecked.
Read →BigQuery Vs Snowflake For Ad-Hoc
BigQuery vs Snowflake for ad-hoc work comes down to one choice: pay per scan or pay per minute.
Read →DORA For Data Reliability
The DORA metrics are over a decade old, proven on software teams, and unused on most data teams I meet.
Read →DE Compensation Trends EU
A client budgeted 2024 salaries for a 2026 data engineer role. The vacancy is now in month six.
Read →Iceberg Is Open. Your Security Model Isn't
An auditor asked who could read the customer table. With three engines on one Iceberg catalog, nobody could answer.
Read →AI Modeling Crisis Patterns
Every failed RAG project I've reviewed had the same upstream issue: nobody modeled the data underneath it.
Read →Series A To B Stack Pivot
The warehouse that carried you to Series A can quietly become the wrong one by Series B.
Read →Too Deep Into Snowflake" Is an Architecture Smell
You can measure architecture health by the price of an exit. For one stack I reviewed, it was 18 months.
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