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 False Economy of Skipping Architecture Reviews
Skipping architecture reviews saves weeks. Fixing the consequences costs months.
Read →The Genius Developer Anti-Pattern
Your best developer might be your biggest risk.
Read →Hidden Cost Multiplier: Technical Debt Compounds Faster Than Financial Debt
Technical debt compounds faster than financial debt. And nobody tracks the interest rate.
Read →Dependencies - Hidden Drags on Progress
Your roadmap isn't delayed by complexity. It's delayed because of coupling.
Read →The Velocity Paradox
Every shortcut you take to move faster becomes a wall you hit at speed.
Read →Why Your Best Engineers Leave - It's the Architecture
Retention isn't an HR problem when your technical debt compounds faster than careers grow.
Read →Platform as Product - Enabling Team Autonomy
Your platform team believes they're building infrastructure, but they're actually running a product company with just one customer segment: …
Read →The Expensive Lie - We'll Refactor Later
"We'll refactor later" isn't a plan. It's a bet that future you will have more time, budget, and political capital than present you.
Read →Event-Driven Architecture - Eliminating Integration Pain
Every point-to-point integration you create is a gamble that the future will resemble today. Event-driven architecture recognizes that it …
Read →Connecting Architecture to Business Goals
Architecture without business context is just expensive documentation.
Read →Want expert eyes on your data architecture?
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