Notes on data, AI, IT
and security
No marketing fog. The way I think about real problems with founders and managers.
Human in the loop: why automated decisions increasingly need a person nearby
The higher the risk of a decision, the more important deliberate semi-automation becomes. Full system autonomy and full manual control are both losing strategies.
ODS, data marts, DWH: why you cannot build an analytics landscape with one abbreviation
Each layer of an analytics architecture solves a different problem, operates at a different speed, and needs its own owner. Mixing the layers is the source of most analytics problems.
Cross-border cloud: where your data physically is and how to verify it
Trust in a cloud provider requires concrete answers: where is the data stored physically, who has access to it, and how is that confirmed in practice.
Streaming vs batch: when real-time is justified and when nightly batch is the honest choice
Before choosing a data processing architecture, it is worth honestly calculating the cost of latency - and finding out whether the business actually pays for it.
BYOD stops being an IT question and becomes a management one
When employees' personal devices enter the corporate access perimeter, this is no longer a problem for the IT team - it is a decision the leadership has to make.
Robotic picking: the economics only work with a solid data foundation
A robot without accurate master data and reliable telemetry quickly runs into operational chaos.
SIEM without maturity is an expensive noise machine
A good SOC starts with solid telemetry and defined scenarios, not with buying a platform.
Personal data protection done properly: it starts with a data flow model
Without a map of data flows you cannot honestly build either security controls or compliance - you are just patching random holes.
Sales, service, logistics: where predictive analytics earns its keep
An accurate model is only the beginning. Profit appears where there is an action scenario and a threshold that triggers it.
Containerization on the horizon: the market wants portable application delivery
Why environment drift has become a systemic problem and which approaches are beginning to address it.
API management: when integrations become a managed portfolio
Interfaces need versioning, documentation and owners - otherwise each new integration adds fragility instead of capability.
Processing speed as an argument: what faster data computation changes
Data engineering is getting a new balance between batch and faster processing - and that changes which problems become solvable at all.