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The Blog.

Every essay published under The Friendly Architect, ordered most-recent first. Notes on data architecture, cloud teams, and Synthetic Data.

7 entries · 4 years on file
20261 entry
№ 01
08 JUN 2026
Technical Debt vs Technical Bankruptcy
Looking closer at the analogy of technical debt
20251 entry
№ 01
03 NOV 2025
Synthetic Tabular Data
Generating Synthetic Tabular Data
20241 entry
№ 01
24 NOV 2024
Can Architecture Shift Left?
Everything (testing, security, infra) seems to have shifted left. Can you do this for Architecture?
20234 entries
№ 01
24 DEC 2023
Building Agile Data Teams
How the problems of delivering data analytics solutions can be solved by stealing the best ideas from the world of development.
№ 02
01 DEC 2023
Try Kanban for Platform Teams
Experiminting with different Agile Techniques in a Platform Team
№ 03
01 OCT 2023
The Agile Toolbox
How to avoid the pitfalls of Agile evangelism and focus on getting things done
№ 04
05 JUN 2023
Washing It's Face
A useful argument for assessing technical debt