Some history It is no exaggeration to say that the relative prosperity of the world today is fundamentally based on the division of labour. The division of labour enabled us to move from an agrarian society to build towns and … Continue reading Microservices and Devops ? What would Adam Smith think …
Four Model In a previous article I looked at why object-relational impedance was still a thing, and why we need both ways of holding data – object model to facilitate the easy interactions needed for user-facing applications, and relational for … Continue reading Removing the Object Relational Impedance
Introduction The enmity between developers and DBAs is both legendary and persistent. Developers get frustrated when DBAs take so long to do the simplest of tasks, and DBAs are disparaging of developers who want the database to do nothing more … Continue reading Why developers and DBAs just don’t get on
Overview The introduction of a discrete environment dedicated to data discovery and model building (e.g. a Datalab) can substantially deal with the lack of agility of more traditional data warehouses where agility has been deliberately locked out to deliver the … Continue reading Bridging the Gap between Data Discovery and Execution
Introduction Discussion of data models in Bigdata environments usually centres around technology focused question – file formats, what compression to use, which columnar store is preferred, whether the file structures are splittable and so on. While these are valid and … Continue reading How to optimise your read-only Bigdata storage model
There has never been a time that data hasn’t been recognised to be as important as it is today. It seems that the world has woken up to the potential value that an organisation’s data can offer – not only … Continue reading Operational Reporting and Enterprise BI
Yesterday, there was a question on an enterprise architecture discussion forum asking whether Powerpoint could have any value as an EA tool? I was interested to read the comments where there was a fairly strong viewpoint from many of the … Continue reading Just what is Enterprise Architecture?
I’ve called this Data Lake Top Tips because if I called it Data Warehouse Top Tips, then nobody would read it (because nobody is building Data Warehouses any more, right?). The reality is that Data Lakes, Data Warehouses, Data Marts … Continue reading Data Lake Top Tips
It’s obvious to everyone that we are currently going through a huge shift in the way that IT is used within our lives. The term “paradigm-shift” is much overused, but in this case it’s probably warranted. We all carry around … Continue reading Building a Data Driven Organisation
Introduction There’s no question that data is becoming an important topic in almost every organisation. For some organisations data will be seen as a challenge – as security breaches, privacy violations and data misuse appear on the news almost every day; for other organisations, data is an opportunity as new startups look to use data in new ways and established organisations look to monetise their current data. What is common across all organisations is the recognition that data cannot be ignored – data doesn’t look after itself and the value inherent in data cannot be realised without both up-front investment … Continue reading Data Platform
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