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(Fractional Data Architect on Thomas Nys | Fractional Data Architect)
The DevOps Handbook has a framework called CALMS.
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(Fractional Data Architect on Thomas Nys | Fractional Data Architect)
Vertical scaling is adding RAM.
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(Fractional Data Architect on Thomas Nys | Fractional Data Architect)
Nobody adopts a pipeline.
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(Fractional Data Architect on Thomas Nys | Fractional Data Architect)
They had microservices, a data lake, and Grafana dashboards for everything.
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(Fractional Data Architect on Thomas Nys | Fractional Data Architect)
Scaling too late costs you 6 months.
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(Fractional Data Architect on Thomas Nys | Fractional Data Architect)
The Phoenix Project described a company drowning in unplanned work.
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(Fractional Data Architect on Thomas Nys | Fractional Data Architect)
You doubled your data team.
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(Fractional Data Architect on Thomas Nys | Fractional Data Architect)
This company cut their cloud data bill from EUR80K to EUR45K in 6 weeks.
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(Fractional Data Architect on Thomas Nys | Fractional Data Architect)
Your data team takes 2 weeks to answer a business question.
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(Fractional Data Architect on Thomas Nys | Fractional Data Architect)
Gene Kim wrote The Unicorn Project about a developer trapped in bureaucracy.
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(Fractional Data Architect on Thomas Nys | Fractional Data Architect)
Shadow IT doesn’t start with rogue employees.
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(Fractional Data Architect on Thomas Nys | Fractional Data Architect)
Data quality has 6 dimensions.
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(Fractional Data Architect on Thomas Nys | Fractional Data Architect)
Your data team ships pipelines fast.
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(Fractional Data Architect on Thomas Nys | Fractional Data Architect)
Five times the data.
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(Fractional Data Architect on Thomas Nys | Fractional Data Architect)
Data observability sounds expensive and complex.
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(Fractional Data Architect on Thomas Nys | Fractional Data Architect)
Most companies hire a data architect consultant reactively.
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(Fractional Data Architect on Thomas Nys | Fractional Data Architect)
Your nightly job reprocesses 10TB.
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(Fractional Data Architect on Thomas Nys | Fractional Data Architect)
Most teams skip the architecture review.
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(Fractional Data Architect on Thomas Nys | Fractional Data Architect)
We spent a decade optimizing compilation times.
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(Fractional Data Architect on Thomas Nys | Fractional Data Architect)
Nobody sets out to hoard knowledge.
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(Fractional Data Architect on Thomas Nys | Fractional Data Architect)
You wouldn’t ship a software product without an owner, a roadmap, or a release process.
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(Fractional Data Architect on Thomas Nys | Fractional Data Architect)
Slow pipelines are a symptom.
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(Fractional Data Architect on Thomas Nys | Fractional Data Architect)
Your second data platform will be overengineered.
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(Fractional Data Architect on Thomas Nys | Fractional Data Architect)
You’re paying EUR3K/month for a cloud warehouse.
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(Fractional Data Architect on Thomas Nys | Fractional Data Architect)
Your data team doesn’t know what their pipelines cost.
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(Fractional Data Architect on Thomas Nys | Fractional Data Architect)
Executives see AI as opportunity.
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(Fractional Data Architect on Thomas Nys | Fractional Data Architect)
Alex knows everything about your data platform.
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(Fractional Data Architect on Thomas Nys | Fractional Data Architect)
Monitoring all your data equally is why you’re drowning in alerts.
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(Fractional Data Architect on Thomas Nys | Fractional Data Architect)
The average data team manager is overseeing nearly 3X more people than in 2017.
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(Fractional Data Architect on Thomas Nys | Fractional Data Architect)
Three months ago, this data platform had 15 incidents per week.
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(Fractional Data Architect on Thomas Nys | Fractional Data Architect)
Your best firefighter might be your worst pyromaniac.
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(Fractional Data Architect on Thomas Nys | Fractional Data Architect)
The 3-part governance model that actually gets adopted.
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(Fractional Data Architect on Thomas Nys | Fractional Data Architect)
Your governance is either a bottleneck or ignored.
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(Fractional Data Architect on Thomas Nys | Fractional Data Architect)
Engineers losing 10-20% of their time to repetitive questions.
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(Fractional Data Architect on Thomas Nys | Fractional Data Architect)
Testing data quality after transformation is like tasting the dish after it’s plated.
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(Fractional Data Architect on Thomas Nys | Fractional Data Architect)
Every data engineer on your team loses 2 days per week to technical debt.
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(Fractional Data Architect on Thomas Nys | Fractional Data Architect)
The €250K migration wasn’t a technology project.
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(Fractional Data Architect on Thomas Nys | Fractional Data Architect)
The data platform nobody asked for is the data platform nobody uses.
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(Fractional Data Architect on Thomas Nys | Fractional Data Architect)
You adopted EDA to reduce dependencies.
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(Fractional Data Architect on Thomas Nys | Fractional Data Architect)
Architects design the blueprint.
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(Fractional Data Architect on Thomas Nys | Fractional Data Architect)
Skip your prep and service falls apart.
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(Fractional Data Architect on Thomas Nys | Fractional Data Architect)
Your team’s velocity isn’t slow because they’re bad.
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(Fractional Data Architect on Thomas Nys | Fractional Data Architect)
Every company has an AI roadmap.
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(Fractional Data Architect on Thomas Nys | Fractional Data Architect)
Your spreadsheet chaos isn’t a sign you need Snowflake.
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(Fractional Data Architect on Thomas Nys | Fractional Data Architect)
In week one of every platform review, I find the same five problems.
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(Fractional Data Architect on Thomas Nys | Fractional Data Architect)
They reorganized the data team three times in two years.
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(Fractional Data Architect on Thomas Nys | Fractional Data Architect)
Your 50-person company doesn’t need an enterprise data strategy.
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(Fractional Data Architect on Thomas Nys | Fractional Data Architect)
When everything is “high priority,” nothing gets done.
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(Fractional Data Architect on Thomas Nys | Fractional Data Architect)
Your AI strategy won’t save you if your data is a mess.
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(Fractional Data Architect on Thomas Nys | Fractional Data Architect)
Every growing startup hits the same three data problems.