Data Architecture & Strategy
89 posts filed under Data Architecture & Strategy.
The Data Product Canvas (One-Page Definition)
An empty "consumers" field is the signal to deprecate the asset. Most teams ignore it.
Read →Data Platform Maturity Model (5 Stages)
Your data platform is at stage 2. You're copying stage 5 patterns. That's why it's breaking.
Read →When You Actually Need a Semantic Layer
Most teams buy a semantic layer the way they buy a data warehouse. Tool first, problem retrofitted.
Read →Choosing between 3 data platforms? Stop comparing demos. Here's the radar chart
Choosing between 3 data platforms? Stop comparing demos. Here's the radar chart that makes it objective.
Read →This company piloted Data Mesh with 2 domains in 6 months. Here's what worked (a
This company piloted Data Mesh with 2 domains in 6 months. Here's what worked (and what didn't).
Read →Fitness Functions: Testing Your Architecture Like Code
You test your code. You test your data. But who tests your architecture? Here's how fitness functions change that.
Read →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.
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