Tag: opinion

All the articles with the tag "opinion".

• Platform Engineering: Paving Roads vs Building Cages

  18 Jul, 2023

  An internal ML platform that dozens of teams actually used, and the one test that told me whether I was paving a road or building a cage around it.

• FinOps Is Just Capacity Planning With a Better Hat

  14 Feb, 2023

  Owning a large cloud P&L taught me that cost is an engineering-culture problem, not a dashboard. Where the tooling earns its keep and where it is theater.

• Everyone Wants ChatGPT in Their Product. Most Should Wait.

  17 Jan, 2023

  Weeks after ChatGPT launched, every exec wants it shipped into the product. Here is the production math most teams have not done yet, and the short list of who should not wait.

• Data Mesh Is an Org Chart, Not an Architecture

  12 Jul, 2022

  Rolling out data mesh across dozens of business units taught me that domain ownership of data is a reporting-line and incentive change first, and a technology choice a distant second.