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Notes from two decades of building data systems and four years of shipping AI.

• 2025-09-16· Data Vault· Healthcare· Architecture

  Adjudication Data Model

  A Data Vault 2.0 model for healthcare claims adjudication — built for auditability, regulatory compliance, and parallel-load scalability.

• 2025-08-30· Snowflake· Schema· Data Engineering

  Snowflake Schema Evolution

  How Snowflake's automatic schema evolution handles new columns and constraint changes without manual intervention — plus the limitations to watch for.

• 2025-08-19· Mindset· Discipline

  Repetition

  Discover your purpose, then build the discipline. Repetition is the mother of skill — and it's simpler than you think.

• 2025-08-18· Architecture· Principles

  Simple Architecture

  Clarity beats complexity. Why simple data architecture lands more powerfully than clever data architecture.

• 2025-08-18· Snowflake· Data Engineering

  Snowflake Dynamic Tables

  Five upgrades to Snowflake Dynamic Tables — smarter incremental refreshes, better monitoring, expanded SQL support, and live warehouse swaps.

• 2025-08-17· Salesforce· Snowflake· CDC· Integration

  Salesforce CDC & Snowflake Dynamic Tables

  Unifying Salesforce Bulk API and CDC payloads into a single object in Snowflake using Confluent Kafka Connect and Dynamic Tables.