Writing
Notes from the field.
Occasional writing on how these platforms succeed and fail. Opinionated, and drawn from doing the work rather than from vendor marketing.
Why ontology before transforms
Most struggling Foundry implementations did the pipelines first. The object model is not documentation you write afterwards — it is the decision everything downstream is priced against.
Read →The cloud bill is a symptom
A doubled AWS bill is rarely a procurement problem. It is the platform telling you nobody owns it — and no savings plan fixes ownership.
Read →Pick the program before the architecture
FedRAMP, GovRAMP, TX-RAMP: the expensive mistake is not failing an assessment. It is spending a year of engineering building toward the wrong program.
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