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Data Contracts: The Missing Interface Between Data Producers and Consumers
What a data contract contains, where enforcement lives, how it differs from a catalog, a pragmatic adoption sequence, and the failure modes to avoid.
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The Modern Data Stack Got Too Complex: The Case for Consolidation
Best-of-breed unbundling gave data teams a sprawl of tools. The integration tax now exceeds the benefit, and the pendulum is swinging back.
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Data Lakehouse vs Data Warehouse: Choosing the Right Analytics Foundation
Cut through the lakehouse-versus-warehouse marketing to the real architecture decision: where each wins, the table-format war, and the costly trap of both.
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