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AI: Nobody’s in There. Free if You Cannot Pay. Not Free if You Can.
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AI: Nobody’s in There, and That Is Good News
AI: Nobody’s in There is 30 short, honest essays on judgment, learning, and work with AI. No hype, no doom, and why the empty machine is good news.
Database Performance Health Check: Six Months Slow, Fixed in 75 Minutes
Six months of slow SQL, fixed in 75 minutes. See what a database performance health check finds, and how one focused 4-hour session ends the guessing.
Data Quality and Observability: A Field Guide in Six Parts
Master data quality and observability in six parts: name the problem, rank the risk, define rules, place controls, monitor for drift, and respond calmly.
You Just Found Bad Data in Production. Now What?
Found bad data in production? Use this data incident response playbook: triage, contain, trace the source, fix, verify, tell people, and review calmly.
It Passed Every Test and Still Broke: Four Signals Validation Never Catches
Every test passed and the dashboard still broke. Data pipeline monitoring catches what row rules miss: freshness, volume, schema drift, distribution shift.