Fundamentals of Trust in Engineering
In the age of AI, one invisible dependency still sits behind every system
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Most of Your Backfills Didn't Have to Happen
Backfill (n.): an incident you scheduled yourself
My Empathy Is a Sticker Detector
It me. I'm the sticker-reader.
Design Patterns Suck
23 ways to admit your language sucks
Stop Building AI That Agrees With You
I gave an AI exactly one job: tell me I'm full of shit. Turns out it's a natural
If Your Data Engineer Can Be Replaced by an Agent, You Already Hired Badly
AI didn't replace your data engineer. Your job description did
The Apache Spark Optimization Checklist
Distilled from 16 deep dives and roughly that many incidents I'd rather forget
Mastering Theta Sketches for Cardinality Estimation
How to confidently report numbers that are technically wrong
The Power of Data Sketches: A Comprehensive Guide
To be exact, you must remember everything
Stop Feeding Me AI Slop
Now the 1x engineer can become a 10x, and 0.5x engineer can become 5x engineer but there is a catch
When to Say No to “Platform Work”
Stop building paved roads to nowhere
Why Your 5-Second BigQuery Query Isn’t Cheap
The friendly lie of serverless, the hidden truth of slot-time, and how not to wreck production by accident.
BigQuery Explained: What Really Happens When You Hit “Run”
What if we removed all the crap and just left SQL and hardware?
What Do You Think?
The 4 Most Underrated Words in Leadership
The Golden Age of dbt
How dbt became the backbone of modern data engineering