Model
59 posts filed under Model.
Data Reliability Over AI Speed
A plain statistical baseline caught model drift before any human would have. It took an afternoon to build.
Read →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 …
Read →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.
Read →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.
Read →Premature Real-Time Tax
Streaming has a cost nobody puts in the business case: the weekly tax of running it after the demo works.
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 →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 …
Read →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.
Read →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.
Read →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.
Read →