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Risk Sharing In Data Failures
On one team, engineers reported their own near-misses weekly. Incidents dropped within a quarter.
Read →DORA For Data Reliability
The DORA metrics are over a decade old, proven on software teams, and unused on most data teams I meet.
Read →Fractional Positioning For BE Startups
A CTO said "that's exactly us" four minutes into the call. The pitch was a description of his company.
Read →Series A To B Stack Pivot
The warehouse that carried you to Series A can quietly become the wrong one by Series B.
Read →Data Product Canvas Update For AI Consumers
Your newest data consumers don't file tickets. They're AI agents, and they break differently.
Read →Phoenix Project Lessons For DE
The Phoenix Project is 13 years old. Data teams still run their backlogs the way it warns against.
Read →Brooks Law In Data Hires
A scaleup added 3 data engineers to catch up. Delivery got slower for 2 months.
Read →Fractional For Stack Survival
A fintech founder asked me to sanity-check their data stack three weeks before a raise. It wouldn't have survived the investor's technical …
Read →Lakehouse Convergence Risks
The lakehouse pitch is one platform for raw files and clean tables. The trap is inheriting the data lake's oldest habit: land everything, …
Read →Premature Real-Time Tax
Streaming has a cost nobody puts in the business case: the weekly tax of running it after the demo works.
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