John Kirby
Data Governance
Unfortunately this crucial aspect of data projects is often overlooked, or half baked. It's something that needs to be started and...
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John Kirby
- Jan 14
- 2 min
Don't corrupt your migration
Use an Anticorruption layer. Anticorruption is an architectural approach, part of domain-driven design, to translate data between...
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John Kirby
- Jan 13
- 1 min
Power BI - has it matured into the best data analytics tool?
When Power BI came out, it was pretty limited. Like a lot of tech products which are delivered with the Agile approach, the first...
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John Kirby
- Jan 13
- 2 min
Kimball is here to stay
Kimball is not just a star schema. It's a methodology to capture business requirements and create a star schema around them. There are...
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John Kirby
- Jan 13
- 2 min
Snakes on a lake
Techy people in the data world will be well aware that the tech changes quickly. Platforms, products, languages, frameworks, job titles,...
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John Kirby
- Jan 12
- 1 min
Jira or Azure DevOps?
Both do a good job of facilitating good management of data projects. There's a nuance in that statement. They both facilitate good...
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John Kirby
- Jan 12
- 1 min
Agile by default
"Waterfall" (shudder). Before 'big data', projects using the waterfall methodology weren't always that bad. It depends on the project. If...
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John Kirby
- Jan 12
- 4 min
The Lakehouse - a brief overview
Sounds like a lovely holiday location! In fact, the lakehouse is a design concept that brings together multiple design approaches to...
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