2024
I wrote a few weeks ago about the difference between active vs passive data publishing, and how the active publishing of data leads to better outcomes for your organisation.
Many of us engineers enjoy building things.
Data engineers typically favour moving quickly over reliability.
If you’re creating data, you’re modelling data.
Computation is the most expensive part of your data stack.
I talk a lot about data quality and how it could be improved, because I strongly believe that with a little bit more discipline we can do a lot better.
An article that has stayed with me since it was published back in 2015 is Dan McKinley’s Choose Boring Technology.
You can’t do self-serve just by providing datasets that you understand, but your users don’t.
What do you want from your data?
I enjoyed this post from Nicole Radziwill, PhD on LinkedIn: