Notes on data, AI, IT
and security
No marketing fog. The way I think about real problems with founders and managers.
Experience in IT doesn't appreciate on its own
The market pays not for years in the profession but for the ability to solve current problems. Why expertise quietly loses value, and which part of it barely depreciates at all.
Excel in a company is not a shame, it is a symptom of growth
Why a company being held together by Excel is not embarrassing, but a signal of which processes have outgrown their tools.
Simple architecture often beats trendy
How the urge to use the right stack and draw beautiful diagrams quietly breaks projects that could have been running calmly for years.
Internal API governance: why you need it when you have more than three teams
When a company grows to several product teams, internal integrations start creating problems. Why this happens and how to work with it.
IT budget after a growth freeze: what to cut, what to protect
How to set priorities in an IT budget when the company shifts from growth mode to caution.
Platform engineering: from ops team to internal product
Platform engineering is not just a new word for DevOps. It is a shift in how the infrastructure team thinks about its work - and who its customer is.
Managing internal APIs as teams scale
When a five-person team grows to fifty, informal API agreements stop working. What to put in place before it starts to hurt.
IT budget without transparency: why the numbers diverge from reality
How companies lose control of IT spending, and what it takes for the budget to reflect what is actually happening.
Cloud vendor lock-in: the cost that does not appear in the invoice
Dependency on a single cloud provider looks cheap on paper until the moment you need to renegotiate, migrate, or recover from an outage. What to account for before you are locked in.
Internal APIs as the backbone of IT architecture
Why companies that treat internal APIs as technical details pay a steep price with every integration and every change.
Event-driven architecture: what decoupling services actually buys you
A plain explanation of event-driven patterns for owners and managers - what problems they solve, what new problems they introduce, and when the tradeoff makes sense.
Observability for product teams: what logs, metrics, and traces actually give you
A plain walkthrough of the three observability pillars and why the combination matters - written for technical owners who want to understand what they are paying for.