The month in writing · 2026

August 2026

2 new essays — Architecture & Strategy, Data Governance & Compliance.
Showing 02 essays from August 2026
24 AUG 2026 · 6 min read

Fabric in Production: Governance Patterns That Actually Hold

Everyone can stand up a Fabric workspace. Far fewer can run fifty of them without the whole estate turning into a swamp. The topology, capacity, and access patterns I've watched survive contact with production — and the ones that fall apart.

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10 AUG 2026 · 6 min read

The Governance Debt Behind Every Stalled AI Project

The AI pilot that never reaches production usually didn't fail on the model. It failed on ten years of data-governance shortcuts that all came due at once. A field guide to the debt, and how to pay it down without a two-year programme.

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