Eight practitioner documents on infrastructure, vendor strategy, and compliance. Free to read, reference, and share.
The DuckDB + Parquet + Python position: why managed platforms extract value at the contract renewal, and the exact stack that eliminates the exposure.
Read → Stack evaluationComparison tables for every major tooling decision, a 20-point over-engineering checklist, and a translation glossary for vendor sales phrases.
Read → Migration referenceDiagnostic baseline, compatibility matrix, step-by-step migration sequence, and the failure modes that appear in every migration at scale.
Read → Compliance referenceData localisation requirements and technical implementation for UAE, Saudi Arabia, and Bahrain. PDPL coverage, cloud region mapping, and breach notification timelines.
Read → dbt referenceWhat no dbt tutorial covers: project structure, the twelve model anti-patterns, a strategic testing framework, Slim CI, and documentation that gets read.
Read → Cost analysisWhere the money actually leaks: a 20-point audit, AWS and GCP high-impact cuts, Databricks cost controls, and a monitoring setup that catches anomalies before the invoice.
Read → Architecture analysisWhat data mesh actually requires, when it is genuinely justified, and how to implement it without burning down the architecture you already have.
Read → Privacy and sovereigntyPII risk audit, pseudonymisation toolkit with Python code, GDPR requirements as engineering tasks, and the analytics-safe data layer pattern.
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