Model
59 posts filed under Model.
The "Just Use Excel" Moment (And Why It Happened)
When the CFO opens Excel instead of your dashboard, your data team has already lost.
Read →What the Books Got Wrong About Data
The DevOps playbook assumes you can roll back - data doesn't work that way.
Read →60% of Your Cloud Spend Is Waste (Here's Where)
Your data platform is burning money in three places right now. You're probably only looking at one.
Read →The Data Lineage Maturity Model (4 Stages)
You can't fix what you can't trace. Here's the 4-stage lineage maturity model.
Read →Horizontal vs Vertical Scaling
Vertical scaling is adding RAM. Horizontal scaling is adding servers. One has a ceiling. One doesn't.
Read →Incremental Processing Pattern
Your nightly job reprocesses 10TB. Only 50GB changed. You're burning money and adding risk.
Read →Waiting for LLMs vs Waiting for Compilation
We spent a decade optimizing compilation times. Now we're staring at an LLM spinner doing the exact same thing.
Read →T-Shaped Monitoring Model
Monitoring all your data equally is why you're drowning in alerts. Here's the smarter approach.
Read →Managers Overseeing 3X More People Than 2017
The average data team manager is overseeing nearly 3X more people than in 2017. Something has to give.
Read →Hybrid Governance Implementation
The 3-part governance model that actually gets adopted.
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