How to navigate and embrace complexity in a modern data organisation. — “It’s like the more money we come across, the more problems we see” Notorious B.I.G Webster’s dictionary defines Entropy in thermodynamics as a measure of the unavailable energy in a closed thermodynamic system that is also usually considered to be a measure of the system’s disorder. In Information Theory, the…

GDPR, or the Global Data Protection Regulation, is an EU legislation that went into effect on May 28th, 2018. Since it was first introduced in 2016, companies that do business in Europe have invested a lot of resources to achieve compliance. Your company and many others probably hired a Data…

Or how to unlock the reliability of your data assets at any stage of the pipeline — Co-written with Benedetta Cittadin Over the past decade, data-driven decision-making has proven to be instrumental in any modern organization’s growth stage. As a result, modern data environments are constantly evolving and becoming more and more complex. This surge in the complexity of the Modern Data Stack is responsible for adding…

Data Integration 2.0, Data Mesh, Data warehouse performance, and Data Observability. It’s been a rich year for Data & Analytics. — If I were to choose three thematics to describe the state of the Modern Data Stack and what has been top of mind for most data leaders in 2021, they would be Speed, Autonomy, and Reliability. Speed: everyone wants to access data NOW. Many new technologies are making this possible…