The Cache

Writing from the Airbrx team on data architecture, warehouse cost, and the engineering doctrine behind the Airbrx Gateway — the ideas we keep coming back to, cached here so you don't have to wake the warehouse for them.

Latest Engineering Doctrine

Fewer Dependencies, Fewer Ways to Fail

GitHub opened an incident at 14:17 UTC for degraded Grok models in Copilot. Nothing GitHub operates failed, and their customers still had a bad morning. Twelve of GitHub's last fifty incidents cite an upstream AI model provider — the argument for putting the model beside the request path instead of in it.

Michael Bissell · September 3, 2026 · 6 min read
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Product

Not a Switch. A Volume Knob.

Point a tool at your Airbrx hostname and nothing changes. Queries pass through to your warehouse untouched — we just log them, so we can show you where the repeats are. You turn up caching when, and only where, you want. Start with the noisiest tool you've got, and decide about everything else later — or never.

Airbrx · August 17, 2026 · 3 min read
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Cost & FinOps

The Hidden Costs of Tableau Extracts in Your Snowflake and Databricks Reporting

Tableau extracts and Power BI Imports are data islands by another name. The hidden costs — drift, sync work, eroded trust, a growing archipelago of slightly-different copies of the same truth — never make it into the business case. The fix that doesn't require another island.

Airbrx · May 27, 2026 · 7 min read
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Architecture

The Gateway Flat-Stack Built

Reduce compute, reduce costs. The Airbrx Gateway is the flat-stack doctrine shipped as a product — a sleeping warehouse, predictable keys, surgical cache-busting, gateway-layer security, and scale-to-zero. The reason no traditional stack could have built it is the reason it works.

Airbrx · May 27, 2026 · 6 min read
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Engineering Doctrine

The Flat-Stack Manifesto

The public edition of the doctrine we build by. The cloud made adding infrastructure free, so stacks bloated — and AI removed the last bit of friction that used to force a moment of thought. Flat-stack puts the discipline back: use almost nothing, keep your center of gravity low, and make every dependency a decision someone made on purpose.

Airbrx · May 21, 2026 · 8 min read
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Enough reading. Go get your own number.

The scan reads your own query history and tells you what the repetition is costing you.

Read-only · your token is never stored · nothing to install