Falling Leftwards
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A tech blog written by a former Statistician turned Data platform engineer
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Comparative analysis of Data state architectures
Curious about how today’s top data architectures compare to each other? This article breaks down the leading data state architectures—including Data Lake, Medallion, and AWS Modern Data Architecture—highlighting how each organizes and optimizes data for modern needs. I look at the similarities and differences of them all and try to understand what makes them distinct.
Buy vs. Build: Navigating Architectural Decisions
As I explore the Buy vs. Build dilemma, I dissect metrics like risk, skills, and cost. Emphasizing the pivotal role of upskilling, I see it as a leading indicator for successful system changes, challenging traditional perspectives.
All the enterprise customers
A musing on the nature of the enterprise endorsements on software vendor websites, and the incentives behind them
Middle-child MAD company
Where are the articles and tutorials for the Modern data stack at scale? In this post, I muse on the challenges of finding good resources on how to build a data platform for its scaling period
Data tool investment inertia
Ben Stencils a prominent name in the modern data stack discourse commented on the lack of investment in data tools, as a comment on the state of the MAD landscape. Here I share my thoughts after reading the post and providing my viewpoint on the question.