Data Architecture
From first principles to reference architectures: how modern data platforms are designed, why they look the way they do, and how to make the big decisions.
Data Architecture: The Complete Guide for the AI Era
What data architecture really is, the six layers of a modern platform, how we got from warehouses to open lakehouses, the patterns that matter in 2026 — and a practical framework for choosing yours.
Published Sep 25, 2026 · Read now →Warehouse vs Lake vs Lakehouse: A Decision Guide for 2026
Warehouse, lake or lakehouse? How each really works, why the lines blurred in 2026, and a decision tree, scorecard and scenarios to choose yours.
Published Oct 2, 2026 · Read now →Open Table Formats Deep Dive: Iceberg, Delta, Hudi & DuckLake
How Iceberg, Delta Lake, Hudi and DuckLake turn Parquet files into reliable tables — metadata, commits, deletes, maintenance — and how to choose in 2026.
Published Oct 6, 2026 · Read now →Catalogs: The Metadata Control Plane of the Lakehouse
Why the catalog is the most strategic lakehouse decision: how the Iceberg REST protocol works, how Polaris, Unity, Glue and Horizon compare, and how to choose.
Published Oct 17, 2026 · Read now →Data Modeling for the Modern Stack: Kimball, Data Vault, OBT & Medallion
Kimball, Data Vault 2.x, One Big Table and medallion layers compared on one example, plus a layered recipe for a lakehouse people and AI can trust.
Published Oct 27, 2026 · Read now →Batch, Streaming & Real-Time Architectures
Lambda, Kappa, streaming lakehouse, CDC and the latency/cost/complexity triangle.
Coming soonData Mesh & Data Fabric in Practice
Domain ownership, data products, federated governance — what worked and what did not.
Coming soonReference Architectures: AWS, Azure, GCP, Databricks & Snowflake
The same blueprint mapped onto each platform, with the gotchas.
Coming soonDesigning AI-Ready Data Architecture
Unstructured data, vector search, semantic layers, context for agents and governance for AI.
Coming soonCost, Performance & FinOps for Data Platforms
Where the money goes, and the architectural levers that actually reduce it.
Coming soon