Model
71 posts filed under Model.
Series A To B Stack Pivot
The warehouse that carried you to Series A can quietly become the wrong one by Series B.
Read →Too Deep Into Snowflake" Is an Architecture Smell
You can measure architecture health by the price of an exit. For one stack I reviewed, it was 18 months.
Read →Data Reliability Over AI Speed
A plain statistical baseline caught model drift before any human would have. It took an afternoon to build.
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 →75% Belgian SMEs On AI Daily
Three in four Belgian SMEs now use AI daily or weekly. Most are running it on data they wouldn't trust for a board report.
Read →Databricks DBU Trap For ETL
Your Databricks bill is mostly DBUs. A lot of those DBUs run ETL that never needed Spark in the first place.
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.
Read →Fractional Architect Series B Audit
Investor technical due diligence has one real question: will this stack survive the growth the round is funding?
Read →Wrong DE Hire Cost Matrix
A wrong data engineering hire runs you about three salaries by the time you count the ramp, the re-hire, and the work that stalled in …
Read →FinOps Maturity For Data Teams
Most data teams know their monthly cloud bill. Far fewer can tell you which euro produced value and which one was pure waste.
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