The right level of abstraction
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When building a (data) platform you end up thinking a lot about the abstractions you are providing, and the trade-offs they cause.
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What key business processes depend on your data?
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What key business processes depend on your data?
When to add friction
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When building a data platform I’m often thinking about how to reduce friction for my users.
CDC creates tight coupling
Many data platforms start with a change data capture (CDC) service to extract data from an organisations transactional databases - the source of truth for their most valuable data.
Alert fatigue
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How many alerts do you get every day?
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.
If data is part of engineering, do we need data contracts?
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David Jayatillake published an interesting post recently titled “We don’t need data contracts”.
Implement your tools where your users expect them to be
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If you want your users to use the tools you are building or onboarding, it’s important to implement them exactly where they expect them to be.
Bringing producers and consumers together with data contracts
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The definition and evolution of the data contract should be a collaboration between the data producers and the data consumers.
Being boring
An article that has stayed with me since it was published back in 2015 is Dan McKinley’s Choose Boring Technology.
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