Professional Insights

Articles on product management, data platforms, AI, and digital transformation

AI

The LLM as an API Designer and Critic

When AI builds the API, then evaluates its own work—a dialogue exploring how LLMs design, critique, and consume geospatial APIs.

Ironies of AI Automation

A practitioner's guide to Bainbridge's framework—understanding why more AI automation often means we need more human expertise, not less.

API

Taste in API design: Why developer experience demands aesthetic judgment

APIs aren't just functional contracts—they're user interfaces for developers. Great API design requires the same aesthetic judgment and taste that defines excellent product design.

Data and Analytics

Financial Data Marketplaces

Evolution of Financial Data Marketplaces.

Model driven Streaming Data Pipelines

Adapting model driven development for creation of robust streaming data pipelines.

Cloud and Infrastructure

Building a hybrid cloud architecture for enterprise-scale data processing

Asynchronous file based data processing.

Strategy

Bloomberg: A 7 Powers Analysis

Analyzing Bloomberg's nearly impregnable competitive moat through Hamilton Helmer's 7 Powers framework—understanding why network effects and switching costs create a fortress that competitors consistently underestimate.