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59 posts filed under Model.

Jul 6, 2026 Technical Debt & Economics

Data Reliability Over AI Speed

A plain statistical baseline caught model drift before any human would have. It took an afternoon to build.

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Jun 19, 2026 Fractional & Leadership

Fractional For Stack Survival

A fintech founder asked me to sanity-check their data stack three weeks before a raise. It wouldn't have survived the investor's technical …

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Jun 18, 2026 Technical Debt & Economics

75% Belgian SMEs On AI Daily

Three in four Belgian SMEs now use AI daily or weekly. Most are running it on data they wouldn't trust for a board report.

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Jun 16, 2026 Technical Debt & Economics

Databricks DBU Trap For ETL

Your Databricks bill is mostly DBUs. A lot of those DBUs run ETL that never needed Spark in the first place.

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Jun 14, 2026 Data Architecture & Strategy

Premature Real-Time Tax

Streaming has a cost nobody puts in the business case: the weekly tax of running it after the demo works.

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Jun 13, 2026 Fractional & Leadership

Fractional Architect Series B Audit

Investor technical due diligence has one real question: will this stack survive the growth the round is funding?

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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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Jun 10, 2026 Technical Debt & Economics

FinOps Maturity For Data Teams

Most data teams know their monthly cloud bill. Far fewer can tell you which euro produced value and which one was pure waste.

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Jun 8, 2026 Data Architecture & Strategy

Deterministic vs Non-Deterministic AI

Run your AI feature twice on the same input. If a different answer would be a problem, you've found a deterministic requirement.

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Jun 6, 2026 Platform & Velocity

The Fragile Organic Platform Fix

An e-commerce client's reporting ran on a spreadsheet one person updated by hand every morning. It broke every quarter, always at month-end.

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