Five signs your lakehouse needs a Unity Catalog refresh
Governance debt shows up quietly — through duplicated tables and access requests, not outages. Here's what to watch for.
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Field notes from the platform floor.
Practical, opinionated writing on data engineering, AI, and cloud platforms — from engagements, not theory.
Why most generative AI pilots never reach production
The gap between a working demo and a monitored, governed production system is usually process, not model quality.
8 min read
Batch vs. streaming: choosing the right default
Streaming isn't always the upgrade it's marketed as. A framework for deciding when latency is actually worth the complexity.
5 min read
A practical checklist for cloud migration cost overruns
Most migration budgets fail in the same five places. We walk through each one with a mitigation for each.
7 min read
Data lineage is a product, not a project
Treating lineage as a one-time implementation is why most governance programs stall within a year.
6 min read
The self-serve BI trap, and how to avoid it
Self-serve dashboards without a governed semantic layer just move the trust problem downstream.
5 min read
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