Data Architecture & Strategy
42 posts filed under Data Architecture & Strategy.
CAP Per Workload: Why One Consistency Model Doesn't Fit Your Whole Platform
Treating finance and customer analytics like the same workload is how you end up with a platform that serves neither well.
Read →The Rise of Data SRE: Reliability Engineering for Data Platforms
Your data pipelines run in production. But nobody treats them like production systems. That's about to change.
Read →Observability Turned Our Senior Engineers Back Into Builders
Six months ago our senior engineers were firefighters. Now they're builders again. The change wasn't a reorg. It was observability.
Read →The Data Maturity Assessment You Can Do in 30 Minutes
Most maturity assessments take six weeks and a consulting firm. This one takes 30 minutes and a whiteboard.
Read →Wardley Mapping Your Data Stack (Build, Buy, or Outsource?)
Your custom Airflow setup is not a competitive advantage. Your customer analytics model might be.
Read →The Incremental Migration Strategy (Strangler Fig Pattern)
You don't migrate a data platform in one go. You grow the new one around the old one.
Read →Data Observability + Data Catalog: The Convergence
Your data team switches between four tools during an incident. That's about to change.
Read →The Data Contract That Saved a Product Launch
The data contract didn't save the launch. It saved the three days of firefighting that would have followed.
Read →Data Lineage: From 'Nice to Have' to 'Must Have
Without data lineage, every schema change is a game of "what did we just break."
Read →The Data Product Roadmap Template (3 Horizons)
Your data roadmap is a wishlist - here's the 3-horizon framework that turns it into strategy.
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