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Notes on the decisions that shape enterprise data and technology architecture. No case studies or statistics we cannot evidence.
Data Architecture
Building a Modern Enterprise Data Platform
The architectural decisions that determine whether a data platform becomes a durable foundation or another silo.
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Data Platforms
Databricks Lakehouse Architecture
How the lakehouse pattern combines lake economics with warehouse guarantees, and where the design effort actually goes.
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Data Architecture
Medallion Architecture Explained
Bronze, silver and gold are a useful convention — but only when the responsibilities of each layer are defined precisely.
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Data Modelling
Data Vault vs Dimensional Modelling
Two modelling approaches solving different problems — and how to combine them without doubling the work.
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AI Architecture
Designing an AI-Ready Data Platform
AI initiatives stall on data, access and integration foundations far more often than on model capability.
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Integration
Event-Driven Integration Architecture
When events are the right integration style, and the design work that makes them operable.
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Cloud Architecture
Azure vs AWS for Modern Data Platforms
A comparison framework for platform selection that survives contact with an enterprise environment.
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