John KirbyJan 141 minData GovernanceUnfortunately this crucial aspect of data projects is often overlooked, or half baked. It's something that needs to be started and...
John KirbyJan 142 minDon't corrupt your migrationUse an Anticorruption layer. Anticorruption is an architectural approach, part of domain-driven design, to translate data between...
John KirbyJan 131 minPower 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...
John KirbyJan 132 minKimball is here to stayKimball is not just a star schema. It's a methodology to capture business requirements and create a star schema around them. There are...
John KirbyJan 132 minSnakes on a lakeTechy people in the data world will be well aware that the tech changes quickly. Platforms, products, languages, frameworks, job titles,...
John KirbyJan 121 minJira 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...
John KirbyJan 121 minAgile by default"Waterfall" (shudder). Before 'big data', projects using the waterfall methodology weren't always that bad. It depends on the project. If...
John KirbyJan 124 minThe Lakehouse - a brief overviewSounds like a lovely holiday location! In fact, the lakehouse is a design concept that brings together multiple design approaches to...