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Thinking shaped
by practice.
Practical thinking from our consultancy years, on building systems, making realistic plans and finding simpler ways to work.
This is a curated selection from our original website. Publication dates are preserved and edited editions are marked. Technical posts describe the systems and practices of their time.
Aggressimistic planning
Plan for what could go wrong. Then be ambitious about what you can actually deliver.
Read the articleCloud data warehouse principles for greater scalability
Why repeatable environments and automated tests belonged at the heart of our data warehouse architecture.
Read the articleFind problems with checklists. Solve them with services.
Visibility helps you find a delivery problem. Changing the system is often how you solve it.
Read the articleFully automated deployments to a running data warehouse
Coordinating running jobs and queued work to automate deployment on a busy data warehouse.
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