Technical Debt & Economics
85 posts filed under Technical Debt & Economics.
Status Quo Is Never Free: Why Your 'Do Nothing' Option Has the Biggest Hidden Price
"Do nothing" is never free. One client's "zero cost" status quo was burning 200K a year in workarounds nobody tracked.
Read →The Cloud Cost Optimization Sprint: 45% Reduction in 8 Weeks
This company was burning six figures a year on cloud data - we cut it by 45% in 8 weeks.
Read →The Migration That Didn't Solve Anything
The most expensive way to avoid fixing your organizational problems: migrate to a new data platform.
Read →Three Places Your Cloud Data Spend Leaks
Your data platform is burning money in three places right now. You're probably only looking at one.
Read →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.
Read →From EUR80K/Month Cloud Bill to EUR45K - The Optimization Sprint
This company cut their cloud data bill from EUR80K to EUR45K in 6 weeks. No functionality lost.
Read →Technical Debt Cost Calculation
Slow pipelines are a symptom. The disease is poor architectural decisions nobody revisited.
Read →The Second-System Effect in Data Platforms
Your second data platform will be overengineered. Fred Brooks predicted this in 1975.
Read →Cost-Aware Data Engineering - FinOps for Data
Your data team doesn't know what their pipelines cost. That's the first problem.
Read →Technical Debt Productivity Loss
Every data engineer on your team loses 2 days per week to technical debt. That's time they can't spend building.
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