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43 posts filed under Schema.

Feb 10, 2026 Data Architecture & Strategy

T-Shaped Monitoring Model

Monitoring all your data equally is why you're drowning in alerts. Here's the smarter approach.

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Feb 4, 2026 Organizational Dynamics

Metadata Management ROI

Engineers losing 10-20% of their time to repetitive questions. Most teams don't even measure it.

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Feb 3, 2026 Data Architecture & Strategy

Data Quality Testing Layers

Testing data quality after transformation is like tasting the dish after it's plated. Too late.

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Jan 30, 2026 Data Architecture

Event-driven architecture coordination tradeoffs

You adopted EDA to reduce dependencies. You just traded runtime coupling for design-time coupling.

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Jan 28, 2026 Technical Debt & Economics

mise en place for data teams

Skip your prep and service falls apart. Every chef knows this. Most data teams learn it the hard way.

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Jan 24, 2026 Technical Debt

Platform Review: What I Find in Week One

In week one of every platform review, I find the same five problems. Your company probably has at least three.

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Jan 11, 2026 Organizational Dynamics

Architecture Advisory: The 3 Questions I Ask First

In week one of any architecture review, I ask the same 3 questions.

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Jan 10, 2026 Technical Debt & Economics

Why Your AI Project Failed at the Data Layer

Rule of thumb: AI success is 20% model and 80% data infrastructure.

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Dec 18, 2025 Organizational Dynamics

Process Debt Is Worse Than Technical Debt

You can refactor code. Try refactoring a six-person approval chain.

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Dec 10, 2025 Architecture Fundamentals

Why Your Lakehouse Became a Swamp

Your lakehouse became a swamp. And it wasn't a technology problem.

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