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Writing about data engineering, automation, and building systems that survive contact with production.
- · 3 min readWhere businesses quietly lose time or customersSmall points of friction in administration, follow-up, information and websites quietly cost growing businesses time and customers. Here is how to find the leaks before adding another tool.Read
- · 3 min readYour dashboard is slow, and the dashboard is not the problemWhen a report takes four minutes to open, the instinct is to blame the BI tool. Almost always the cost was paid upstream, long before anyone pressed refresh.Read
- · 2 min readQuarantine, not crash: what a pipeline should do with bad rowsA load that fails on one malformed record is not strict, it is brittle. A load that silently accepts it is worse. The useful answer is a third one.Read
- · 2 min readIdempotency is most of the jobEvery pipeline gets re-run. After a failure, after a fix, after someone clicks the button twice. Whether that is routine or an incident is decided at design time.Read