Reducing cognitive load
·2 mins
I wrote yesterday about how by promoting autonomy we can empower the users of our data platform to take on more ownership and responsibility.
Data Platform
2023
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.
Lessons from BlaBlaCar
·2 mins
This blog post from BlaBlaCar shares some great lessons - not just for implementing data mesh, but for any platform team looking to build products for internal stakeholders.
A contract-based data platform
·3 mins
Data contracts are powerful enough you can build a data platform based on them - one that is more flexible and more effective than those we built before and promotes a more decentralised approach to data.
We're no longer building a data platform
·2 mins
A few years ago I, as tech lead of a data platform team, proposed that we shouldn’t be building a data platform.
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
·2 mins
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
We recently had an incident with our data pipeline, resulting in data being lost on route to our data platform.
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