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43 posts filed under Schema.

Mar 22, 2026 Data Architecture & Strategy

The Data Contracts Rollout - From Chaos to 60% Coverage in 90 Days

Data contracts sound great in theory. Here's what it actually looks like to implement them - week by week, with the parts that almost …

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Mar 17, 2026 Data Architecture & Strategy

The Data Incident Response Playbook (MTTR Edition)

When your data breaks, how long until someone notices? If the answer is "when the CFO calls," you don't have an incident response process.

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Mar 15, 2026 Technical Debt & Economics

The Acquisition Disaster - When Technical Debt Tanks a Deal

Due diligence found 15 "temporary" integrations from 2019 still running in production. The acquisition deal died that afternoon.

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Mar 9, 2026 Data Architecture & Strategy

The Deployment Pipeline Concept Applied to Data Products

Your data team deploys to production the same way software teams did in 2008. Manually, nervously, with a 1000-step runbook nobody trusts.

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Mar 7, 2026 Organizational Dynamics + Data Architecture

CALMS for Data Organizations

The DevOps Handbook has a framework called CALMS. Most data teams only do the A. Here's what they're missing.

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Mar 1, 2026 Organizational Dynamics

Communication Overhead Kills Data Team Velocity

You doubled your data team. Delivery got worse. Fred Brooks explained why in 1975.

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Feb 26, 2026 Organizational Dynamics + Data Architecture

The Five Ideals Applied to Data Teams

Gene Kim wrote The Unicorn Project about a developer trapped in bureaucracy. Data engineers live that story every day.

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Feb 23, 2026 Organizational Dynamics + Data Architecture

The Three Ways Applied to Data Pipelines

Your data team ships pipelines fast. That's the First Way. They're ignoring the other two.

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Feb 17, 2026 Organizational Dynamics

Data Product Operating Model

You wouldn't ship a software product without an owner, a roadmap, or a release process. Why do you treat your data differently?

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Feb 16, 2026 Technical Debt & Economics

Technical Debt Cost Calculation

Slow pipelines are a symptom. The disease is poor architectural decisions nobody revisited.

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