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Illustration for “Right Tool. Wrong Architecture.” showing a balance between 95% of business needs already met and a 5% missing capability, with integration, security, data, skills, operations, and vendor considerations. Illustration for “Right Tool. Wrong Architecture.” showing a balance between 95% of business needs already met and a 5% missing capability, with integration, security, data, skills, operations, and vendor considerations.
18/09/ 2026
Right Tool. Wrong Architecture.

There is a question we should ask more often when evaluating new technology: if we can already solve 95 percent of this problem, what is the remaining 5 percent worth? Not just the difference in licensing cost. What is that 5 percent worth after we account for another platform, another integration, another security model, another place for data to live, another skill set to maintain, and another vendor relationship to manage? I have always believed in using the right tool for the right job. I still do. But…

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21/08/ 2026
AI Is Starting to Look Like Cryptocurrency

Remember when cryptocurrency meant Bitcoin? Then Ethereum came along. Before long, there were thousands of cryptocurrencies. Some had a clear purpose. Some filled a niche. Some disappeared almost as quickly as they appeared. I think artificial intelligence is following a similar path. Not because AI is another investment craze, but because it’s no longer one thing. A few years ago, “AI” was almost a single product in most people’s minds. Today, there are dozens of major models, each with different strengths. Building a custom AI agent for a…

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31/07/ 2026
Don’t Buy Technology. Solve Problems.

A recent conversation on LinkedIn with Enterprise Systems & Data Architect Iosiv Popescu inspired this article. During a discussion about data migrations, he made an observation that stayed with me long after the conversation ended: “The business meaning never changed; only the source did.” The more I thought about that statement, the more I realized it applies to far more than data architecture. It applies to the way many organizations approach technology itself. For years, I’ve watched companies begin major initiatives by talking almost exclusively about software. The…

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