Topics

Every essay on this site belongs to one of six running threads. Pick the one closest to your problem.

• Modeling — facts, dimensions, keys, and history: shaping data for analysis.
• Architecture — warehouses, lakes, layers, and stacks: the structural decisions.
• Governance — ownership, contracts, lineage, and meaning: what makes data trustworthy.
• Engineering — pipelines, CDC, batch and streaming: moving data safely.
• AI — what generative AI changes about data architecture, and what it demands of it.
• Craft — the practice and the role of the data architect itself.