Model
66 posts filed under Model.
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.
Read →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.
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