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, 20222 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, 20221 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, 20222 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, 20222 min
Python for the data 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, 20221 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, 20221 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, 20224 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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