Notes on dataarchitecture.
Short essays on architecture, cost, hiring and AI: one cartoon, one idea, most days of the week. No tutorials, no listicles.
The €250K Migration That Didn't Need to Happen
The €250K migration wasn't a technology project. It was an expensive way to avoid hard conversations.
Read →Building data platforms for technology instead of teams
The data platform nobody asked for is the data platform nobody uses.
Read →Event-driven architecture coordination tradeoffs
You adopted EDA to reduce dependencies. You just traded runtime coupling for design-time coupling.
Read →Data Architecture vs Data Engineering: What's the Difference?
Architects design the blueprint. Engineers build the system. Hire the wrong one first and you'll hire both twice.
Read →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.
Read →The Alignment Tax: What Misalignment Costs Per Sprint
Your team's velocity isn't slow because they're bad. It's slow because they're building the wrong thing right.
Read →The AI Readiness Checklist Nobody Uses
Every company has an AI roadmap. Almost none have passed their own readiness checklist.
Read →When You Actually Need a Modern Data Stack
Your spreadsheet chaos isn't a sign you need Snowflake. It's a sign you need clarity on what you're trying to measure.
Read →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.
Read →The Reorg That Made Everything Worse
They reorganized the data team three times in two years. Each time, things got worse.
Read →Want expert eyes on your data architecture?
No pitch. An honest conversation about whether I can help, and what shape it would take if I can.