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A production incident that shows up again and again has the same shape. Someone, whether a human analyst, a BI tool, or increasingly an AI agent writing SQL, runs a…
One of the more expensive mistakes I have watched organizations make, again and again, is assuming that anything worth building must automatically be a product, and that assumption alone has…
1. Card Payment Authentication, Consent and Authorization Are Three Different Things 1.1 Who Actually Does What in a Card Payment Because this argument turns on some fine distinctions, it is…
I have been parachuted into a number of troubled technology environments during my career, and they usually shared the same characteristics: too many incidents, nervous business stakeholders, old technology, fragile…
A follow-up to DGX vs Mac Studio for Local LLMs: A Startup’s Guide to Choosing Your AI Hardware When I wrote the DGX vs Mac Studio comparison in June, the…
Somewhere in your organization right now, a capable adult is sitting on a decision they already know the answer to, because they are waiting for someone with a fancier title…
1. The pitch that arrives every week If you run a technology function at any size of company, you will eventually receive an email that follows a familiar and well…
I recently ran a comparison out of curiosity: what would a normal month of Claude Code usage on a fixed subscription have cost if it had instead been billed at…
Every technologist eventually meets the same moment. The team agrees that an existing technology has reached the end of its useful life. Everyone agrees the replacement is the right direction.…
Every vendor pitch eventually arrives at the same promise. The platform is future proof. The architecture is built to last. The investment you make today will still be paying off…
