The month in writing · 2026
October 2026
2 new essays — Data Engineering, AI & Responsible Tech.
Showing 02 essays from October 2026
26 OCT 2026 · 5 min read
Retiring Legacy ETL Without a Big Bang
Nobody ever finished the great ETL rewrite. The big-bang migration off SSIS or hand-rolled pipelines is where budgets go to die. Here's the strangler-fig order of operations I actually use to retire legacy ETL one seam at a time — and still be running the business on Friday.
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12 OCT 2026 · 5 min read
The EU AI Act's High-Risk Obligations, in Practice
The AI Act's high-risk category is where the real obligations live — and most of them turn out to be data-governance work wearing a compliance label. A practical walk-through of what a data team actually has to do, and why you may already be halfway there.
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AI & Responsible Tech
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