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How To Stop Waiting For Permission To Lead Data Engineering
If you want to be a Staff Engineer you need to start thinking about the business logic before the code.
Jan 14
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Yordan Ivanov
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Your Stakeholder is Wrong (and it’s Your Fault)
If you’re waiting for a stakeholder to bless your logic, you are just an expensive, slow version of an LLM.
Jan 12
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Yordan Ivanov
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The Project Entry Manual That Stops Absorbing Undefined Work
A practical system for turning vague requests into frozen specs, staged delivery, and non-negotiable exit criteria.
Jan 7
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Yordan Ivanov
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Your Tooling Choices Reveal More Than Your Architecture
Why copying Big Tech stacks is often just professional incompetence with better branding
Jan 5
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Yordan Ivanov
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December 2025
The Ideas That Made Data Engineers Impossible to Ignore in 2025
What worked, what didn’t, and what engineers actually responded to in 2025.
Dec 31, 2025
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Yordan Ivanov
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Where Your Data Team Sits Is a Strategic Decision
Why Finance, R&D, and “Independent” Data Teams Optimize for Very Different Outcomes, and how to choose deliberately
Dec 29, 2025
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Yordan Ivanov
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Data Platforms Exist to Enforce Consistency, Not Enable Insight
Most data teams think they’re building insight engines. What they’re really shipping is interpretive control
Dec 24, 2025
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Yordan Ivanov
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Technical Content Planning System for Data Engineers Who Write
How to plan, schedule, and ship long-form writing using the same process you use for data work
Dec 22, 2025
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Yordan Ivanov
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How to Plan a Year of Content as a Data Engineering Leader
How a systems-first planning mindset saves time, reduces decision fatigue, and keeps you writing long-term
Dec 17, 2025
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Yordan Ivanov
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The Signs Your Data Team Is Becoming a Cost Center
How to spot the drift early and pull their team back into the business
Dec 15, 2025
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Yordan Ivanov
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Persuasive Pitch Playbook: The Business Case Framework I Wish Someone Taught Me at 25
A simple “Problem → Opportunity → Solution → Impact” formula to turn your data projects from “No” to “Yes” on repeat.
Dec 10, 2025
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Yordan Ivanov
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How to Prioritize Inbound Work When Everything Looks Important
The priority scoping matrix that protects your data team from getting more work than you can handle
Dec 8, 2025
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Yordan Ivanov
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