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66 posts filed under Model.

Jul 31, 2026 Data Architecture & Strategy

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.

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Jul 30, 2026 Organizational Dynamics

DORA For Data Reliability

The DORA metrics are over a decade old, proven on software teams, and unused on most data teams I meet.

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Jul 27, 2026 Organizational Dynamics

DE Compensation Trends EU

A client budgeted 2024 salaries for a 2026 data engineer role. The vacancy is now in month six.

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Jul 19, 2026 Data Architecture & Strategy

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.

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Jul 16, 2026 Data Architecture & Strategy

AI Modeling Crisis Patterns

Every failed RAG project I've reviewed had the same upstream issue: nobody modeled the data underneath it.

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Jul 15, 2026 Platform & Velocity

Series A To B Stack Pivot

The warehouse that carried you to Series A can quietly become the wrong one by Series B.

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Jul 8, 2026 Data Architecture & Strategy

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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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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