We're no longer building a data platform
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A few years ago I, as tech lead of a data platform team, proposed that we shouldn’t be building a data platform.
Data Platform
2023
The complexities of build vs buy
·2 mins
Reposting last weeks post on the IKEA effect to LinkedIn kicked off an interesting discussion on the complexities of build vs buy.
2021
A Data Platform is not just for analytics
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Data is at the heart of every meaningful service, and it’s the effective use of that data which builds a product, and a business.
We had an incident, and it was great
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We recently had an incident with our data pipeline, resulting in data being lost on route to our data platform. Of course, you never want an incident, but failures are a fact of life. What’s important is how you prepare for them and respond to them, and in that sense this was a great incident.
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