An Alternative to Buying Capacity to Fix Dataflow Stockouts
A Dataflow job that can't get its machine type sends most teams straight to Compute Engine reservations. There's a free config change that went GA in April and might work better.
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AI & Agents
5 min read
Thinking of an agent as a Colleague
I was challenged to work out what it would take to think of agents as colleagues. Taken seriously it becomes an operating model: identity, scoped access, governed onboarding context, supervision, evaluation, deprovisioning. Here's what worked when I built that, and the three places it broke.
By Jeremy
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Technology
4 min read
BigQuery Omni Reads Your S3 Data In Place. Just Don't Treat It Like a Pipeline.
I ran BigQuery Omni against a real Apache Iceberg lake in AWS S3 to see where cross-cloud querying shines and where it quietly breaks — and why it's a query window, not a data pipeline.
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Career
4 min read
You Don't Really Understand It Until You've Taught It
Someone called me a good teacher and I wanted to argue. Here's what mentoring juniors, teaching my six-year-old drums, and handing off platform frameworks taught me about ego, understanding, and why teaching is the real work.
By Jeremy
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AI & Agents
6 min read
SR 26-2 Punted on AI. Here's What Actually Regulates Your Models.
The new model risk guidance excludes generative AI in a single footnote and defers the rest to a future rulemaking. But out of scope isn't unregulated - a stack of existing law still governs every AI decision you ship.
By Jeremy
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Technology
8 min read
I Made Snowflake Query GCS Data Without Copying a Single Byte
A GCS-resident Iceberg table, a workload identity trust handshake, and Snowflake reading it live -- no pipeline, no copy, no ETL. Here's exactly how zero-copy federation works, and where it falls apart.
By Jeremy
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AI & Agents
11 min read
Ontologies for mere mortals: one that actually runs
Every ontology article leaves you more confused than when you started. Here is the opposite - one real ontology running inside a banking AI, every piece of jargon translated (taxonomy included), the drift it killed, and what it becomes at enterprise scale.
By Jeremy
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AI & Agents
9 min read
Build the Gateway, Buy the Model: AI Governance for Regulated Industries on GCP
Self-hosting an open model is not what keeps your data safe in a regulated industry - owning the front door is. I built an AI governance gateway on GCP with PII screening, token budgets, and a full audit trail for under 10 dollars a month, and it changed my answer on the whole build-vs-buy question.
By Jeremy
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