Christian Tichy
Essays and experiments on platform engineering and data infrastructure. Mostly about what stops being true when both sides of an integration can reason, and what turns out to be load-bearing after all.
Experiment · 29 September 2026
No, and more decisively than I expected. Two systems keep a structured contract because neither can ask a question. When both can ask, the schema, the versioning and the deprecation cycle stop earning their keep. What replaces them is far smaller than a schema and considerably stricter, and it is the part we already assign to a data steward without giving them any way to enforce it.