Model
72 posts filed under Model.
Wardley Mapping Your Data Stack (Build, Buy, or Outsource?)
Your custom Airflow setup is not a competitive advantage. Your customer analytics model might be.
Read →The RACI Nobody Wants to Fill In (And Why That's the Problem)
Everyone agrees on "data ownership." Nobody agrees on who actually owns what.
Read →2026 Data Hiring: From 'Find Unicorns' to 'Build Balanced Teams
The unicorn data engineer doesn't exist - but the balanced data team does.
Read →The "Just Use Excel" Moment (And Why It Happened)
When the CFO opens Excel instead of your dashboard, your data team has already lost.
Read →What the Books Got Wrong About Data
The DevOps playbook assumes you can roll back - data doesn't work that way.
Read →Three Places Your Cloud Data Spend Leaks
Your data platform is burning money in three places right now. You're probably only looking at one.
Read →The Data Lineage Maturity Model (4 Stages)
You can't fix what you can't trace. Here's the 4-stage lineage maturity model.
Read →Horizontal vs Vertical Scaling
Vertical scaling is adding RAM. Horizontal scaling is adding servers. One has a ceiling. One doesn't.
Read →Incremental Processing Pattern
Your nightly job reprocesses 10TB. Only 50GB changed. You're burning money and adding risk.
Read →Waiting for LLMs vs Waiting for Compilation
We spent a decade optimizing compilation times. Now we're staring at an LLM spinner doing the exact same thing.
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