In our introductory post we discussed the typical structure and usual components of a modern data platform.

A very common component of any Data Lake and Data Warehouse implementation is what we often call the “Cold Storage” tier. This is where, or rather how, the vast majority of data is persisted i...

We live in an era of data. Data is in every organization’s strategy, every engineer’s job description, and every CIO’s dreams (or nightmares). Day in, day out, more data collectors and more data generators are being built. The collectors are observability tools and data platforms, and the generators...

Cloud Computing today is accessible by everyone: anyone can launch a EC2 instance on AWS or write entire systems using Serverless technologies without launching even a single VM. The on-going competition between cloud giants AWS, Google Cloud Platform and Microsoft Azure keeps bringing prices down a...