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The trust gap in Data teams
How freshness, availability, and pipeline success rates miss the only metric that matters: confidence.
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Governance: Great intentions, bad outcomes
How well-meant policies create friction, slow teams down, and damage trust when empathy is missing.
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Metrics without meaning
When numbers stop telling the truth about progress
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AI models are the new technical debt
AI systems fail quietly. They rot in production while dashboards stay green.
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The invisible work that keeps everything running
What if the work you can’t measure is the work that matters most?
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Engineering without empathy: Why internal platforms fail their users
The real reason developers bypass your platform isn’t technical debt, it’s emotional debt.
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When Data democratization becomes data anarchy
Giving everyone access to data was supposed to create smarter, faster decisions. But without ownership, governance, and literacy, democratization often…
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The myth of the single source of truth
Why chasing one golden dataset wastes time, creates frustration, and distracts from the real goal: trusted and usable data.
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Getting reliability on the product roadmap: How SREs can win prioritisation
Reliability work often loses to feature delivery. But SRE and platform teams can make the business case, speak the product language, and finally get…
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Why Data teams build but don’t deliver
Many data teams deliver great technical solutions that never get adopted or measured for impact. It's time to shift from building pipelines to creating…
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When engineers drive the roadmap: The risks of building without a product compass
Why engineering-led initiatives often miss the mark. And how to realign teams around user and business value. From an engineer.
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You have metrics. So why are incidents still a mystery?
Teams have more dashboards, metrics, and alerts than ever, but still struggle to respond effectively during incidents. Learn how to build systems that…
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