The month in writing · 2023

November 2023

2 new essays — Craft & Communication, Architecture & Strategy.
Showing 02 essays from November 2023
30 NOV 2023 · 5 min read

Explaining Your Architecture to People Who Sign the Cheques

The best data architecture in the world dies in the room where it's explained badly to the people funding it. Translating technical decisions into language a board can act on isn't a soft skill bolted on afterwards — it's the skill that determines whether any of the technical work survives.

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16 NOV 2023 · 7 min read

Microsoft Fabric Is GA. Should You Move?

Fabric went generally available this week. The preview question was 'is this real?' — I think it clearly is. The GA question is different and harder: is it ready for *you*, *yet*? Here's how I'd actually decide.

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