A few years ago, my father decided to build a house in the village. On the surface, it was easy to like the idea. A quiet place. A porch. A garden. Somewhere to disappear for a while. Perhaps, a retirement home one day. My sisters and I got excited quickly. We talked about how the house should look, what each […]
A few companies back, my manager and I inherited a group of teams after layoffs. Confidence was already low. People didn’t believe in the systems we maintained. Stakeholders lost trust in what we did. Results were inconsistent, and even routine work needed more verification than it should have. We tried to steady things, but it was hard to know what […]
The other day I was talking with one of my directs. We ended up discussing something we’ve both learned over the years. When execution works, the environment is quiet. Not slow. Not passive. Quiet. Execution happens. People work together. Nothing feels heavy. You sort of question if there’s management in all this or their very existence. That’s a good thing. […]
I have been working on this data discovery tool for a while, and it keeps showing me how messy our systems really are. The idea behind it is simple. Crawl every database we have, pull every table and column, match things that look the same across Postgres, Hive and Redshift, and then put everything in one place. One stop shop […]