Moving less data, with federated queries
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I mentioned yesterday that one way to reduce the amount of data transformations (and the costs of them) is to challenge the assumption we need to bring all data centrally before it can be useful.
Data Platform
2024
We are not unique
Most of the problems we’re solving in our organisations are not unique to us:
2023
A production ready data platform
·1 min
Your contracts-backed data platform should give your users a production ready way to generate, manage and consume data, and make that data available through a reliable interface.
APIs vs Data contracts
·1 min
APIs and data contracts have a lot in common, and APIs were part of the inspiration behind data contracts when I was coming up with the idea a few years back.
Infering rather than defining
·1 min
In yesterday’s note I wrote about the problem with defaults.
The problem with defaults
·2 mins
Let’s say 20 years ago you ran your code in an environment you configured simply as python.
Agility vs stability
How do you like your data?
The holiday code freeze
It’s that time of year again where teams everywhere are considering a code freeze for the holiday season.
Reducing cognitive load
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I wrote yesterday about how by promoting autonomy we can empower the users of our data platform to take on more ownership and responsibility.
Autonomy
·1 min
You might have noticed how I keep using the word autonomy in these posts, for example a couple of days ago when writing about a contract-based data platform and yesterday when linking to lessons from BlaBlaCar.
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