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Haevek Brief - The Unit Economics Journey

info@haevek.com (Haevek) — Sun, 30 Aug 2026 18:15:30 GMT

Do you know the cost of each workload? Can you lower it? More teams than ever can measure workload costs. The harder challenge is lowering unit cost as workload volume grows.

Haevek Brief - The Right Playbook, the Wrong Layer

info@haevek.com (Haevek) — Sun, 30 Aug 2026 18:13:57 GMT

Everyone is running the right playbook — more governance, more discipline. Waste rises anyway.

Haevek Brief - The Misaligned Incentive

info@haevek.com (Haevek) — Sun, 30 Aug 2026 18:11:31 GMT

Ask one question of your data platform contract: what happens when a system wastes compute?

Haevek Brief - The Performance/Cost Tradeoff

info@haevek.com (Haevek) — Sun, 30 Aug 2026 18:09:00 GMT

Every data platform decision you've made assumes you can be fast or cheap — not both. That tradeoff was made by the market, not by a law of computing.

Haevek Brief - Half A Paradigm Shift

info@haevek.com (Haevek) — Sun, 30 Aug 2026 18:06:27 GMT

The industry already left the JVM — the incumbents rebuilt their engines in C++. They fixed the physics, and kept the pricing.

Haevek Brief - Mandate Collision

info@haevek.com (Haevek) — Sun, 30 Aug 2026 18:04:07 GMT

Two mandates are landing on the same desk. Both are right. They collide in one place — your compute layer.

Haevek Brief - The Infrastructure Tax

info@haevek.com (Haevek) — Sun, 30 Aug 2026 18:02:12 GMT

Apache Spark is open-source software. The license costs "nothing". So how is running Spark one of the most expensive line items on your infrastructure budget?

Haevek Brief - Falcon vs. Photon

info@haevek.com (Haevek) — Sun, 30 Aug 2026 18:00:04 GMT

A multibillion-dollar e-commerce platform provider replaced the engine behind the Databricks Photon pipelines that run its commercial transaction analytics. Four production pipelines, compared head-to-head.

Haevek Brief - AI at Scale

info@haevek.com (Haevek) — Sun, 30 Aug 2026 17:58:09 GMT

How much of your data does your AI actually see? Most teams we meet sit at Stage 2–3, with an AI-at-scale strategy priced out of reach.

Haevek Brief - Compute Efficiency

info@haevek.com (Haevek) — Sun, 30 Aug 2026 17:55:00 GMT

Where is your team today? Most teams we meet sit at Stage 2–3 — real progress, inside the same ceiling.