Model
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The Rebuild Cost Curve
Every quarter the wrong data foundation stays in place, more of the business gets built on top of it.
Read →Startup Stack Vs Scale-Up Stack
About half the data stack that got you to 25 people won't make it to 80. You can guess which half now.
Read →Postgres Or A Real Warehouse First
Postgres can probably carry your analytics longer than you think.
Read →DE Role Evolution 2026
If a model writes the pipelines, I don't know yet where your juniors learn why pipelines break.
Read →Semantic For Unstructured First
Most AI data problems I see start in a column called payload, long before any embedding.
Read →dbt Coalesce Metadata Shift
The description fields in your dbt project used to be read by nobody. Now an agent reads them.
Read →Governance Before AI Act Fines
The provenance record behind an AI feature fits in a YAML file next to the pipeline code.
Read →Reg Dual Compliance Map
GDPR and the AI Act ask their questions at the same moment: when a dataset gets reused for a model.
Read →EU SME AI Data Assess
Before your AI feature ships to EU customers, try deleting one customer from everything it reads.
Read →Scaleup Debt Economics
A CTO wanted a full platform rewrite before the next raise. 8 weeks of tickets pointed at two components.
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