Toolbox
Interactive tools
7 free tools for data platform teams — assessments, challenges, calculators, and visualizers. Fast, anonymous, and useful without context.
Data Platform Maturity Checker
A lightweight, anonymous maturity signal for platform architecture, governance, analytics delivery, operations, and documentation. Get a directional benchmark in under 3 minutes.
Governance Readiness Scorecard
Evaluate whether your organization is ready to implement a data governance program. Get a readiness tier, top blockers, and a prioritized 90-day action plan.
Architecture Decision Roulette
10 real-world data platform scenarios. Pick your approach, then see how a Senior Data Engineer would call it.
Data Stack Roast
Select your stack components and get a brutally honest 3-paragraph roast of your architecture choices.
SQL Deathmatch
15 rounds of paired Spark SQL queries. Pick the winner, learn execution plan reasoning, and discover your tier.
Lakehouse Cost Calculator
Estimate monthly Databricks costs from your cluster config. See optimization suggestions with projected savings.
Spark Explained
Animated pipeline visualizer showing how data flows through Spark stages — partitions, shuffles, skew, and spills.