Data · Planned
Building 12th Data in the Open
A running log of designing 12th Data, a planned public Texas A&M football data platform: architecture decisions, open questions, and what isn't built yet.
Notes from the
engineering desk.
A lightweight, Markdown-ready publishing space for ideas that are still being tested, learned, and made useful. Every entry here is a draft or planned outline—none represent finished writing.
Data · Draft
Parquet vs. CSV for Public Sports Data
Why a columnar format like Parquet is worth the extra complexity over CSV for a project like 12th Data, and where CSV is still the right call.
Infrastructure as Code · Planned
Designing Terraform Modules That Don't Fight You Later
Notes on module boundaries, variable design, and state layout, drawn from operating platform infrastructure in production.
Kubernetes · Planned
Kubernetes Observability: Metrics, Logs, and the Gap Between Them
A planned walkthrough of building an observability stack for Kubernetes: what Prometheus, Grafana, and Loki are each good at, and where they fall short alone.
Data · Planned
Applying Data Analytics to Infrastructure Decisions
Early thinking on treating operational telemetry as a dataset: feeding capacity, incident, and cost signals into the same analytical tools used for MS MIS coursework.