data platform

1. September 10, 202630 min read

   What a Query Costs

   Finance asks the data platform team what a dashboard costs to run. The honest answer is that nobody knows. The cloud bill arrives as a handful of…

2. July 25, 202630 min read

   Governing What Agents Cost You

   A platform team I spoke with watched their query volume rise 40 times in six weeks. No new dashboards, no new users, no new data sources. What…

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