Practical notes on data, AI, cloud and security from the engineers who do the work.

Almost every regulated mid-market company has a data governance policy. It's usually a well-written PDF, approved by leadership and saved somewhere safe.

Why the next generation of data governance is moving from static inventories to active metadata

For the past few years, enterprise AI conversations have circled one question: which model should we use? GPT, Claude, Gemini, and a growing field of open-source and specialized models have made it feel like the model is the whole decision. It isn't.