Data Architecture & Strategy
89 posts filed under Data Architecture & Strategy.
The Data Strategy One-Pager (What Execs Actually Need)
The best data strategy I've seen fit on a single page.
Read →What the Books Got Wrong About Data
The DevOps playbook assumes you can roll back - data doesn't work that way.
Read →The Data Contracts Rollout - From Chaos to 60% Coverage in 90 Days
Data contracts sound great in theory. Here's what it actually looks like to implement them - week by week, with the parts that almost …
Read →The Medallion Architecture Backlash
Bronze, Silver, Gold. Three layers that make sense on a slide and fall apart the moment someone asks "where does this transformation …
Read →The Tiered Storage Strategy (Hot, Warm, Cold)
Hot, warm, cold. Three tiers, one policy, and suddenly your storage bill makes sense.
Read →The Data Incident Response Playbook (MTTR Edition)
When your data breaks, how long until someone notices? If the answer is "when the CFO calls," you don't have an incident response process.
Read →The Self-Service Analytics Maturity Ladder
"Self-service analytics" at most companies means "we gave everyone PowerBI access and hoped for the best."
Read →The Data Lineage Maturity Model (4 Stages)
You can't fix what you can't trace. Here's the 4-stage lineage maturity model.
Read →The Deployment Pipeline Concept Applied to Data Products
Your data team deploys to production the same way software teams did in 2008. Manually, nervously, with a 1000-step runbook nobody trusts.
Read →Horizontal vs Vertical Scaling
Vertical scaling is adding RAM. Horizontal scaling is adding servers. One has a ceiling. One doesn't.
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