Archive - Cut to the chase

Despite the large number of cloud providers and their services, we still write and run code locally

Mar 23

People can never have a fruitful argument about something that's part of their identity

Mar 16

“The actual logic of our program becomes almost invisible, buried among services and APIs.”

Mar 8

Convenience might be worth more than modularity

Mar 2

February 2023

Technology for its own sake is snake oil.

Feb 23

Ignore ambiguity around ROI and do whatever it takes to make others more decisive

Feb 16

To change the circumstances of data teams, look beyond tools, people and processes. Change the company culture.

Feb 14

For over a decade, inability to gain value from data has been blamed on its size. But data size wasn’t the problem.

Feb 9

January 2023

The job of a data team is either DaaP or DaaS

Jan 30

How and whether you can measure ROI depends on whether data is part of your core business.

Jan 30

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