Data Engineering
From Ledgers to Intelligence Part 13: Data Mesh Decentralising Ownership and the Domain-Oriented Data Architecture
Digital Transformation | June 2026 In March 2019, Zhamak Dehghani then principal technology consultant…
From Ledgers to Intelligence Part 12: Real-Time Analytics Kafka, Flink, and the Move from Batch to Stream
Digital Transformation | June 2026 The entire history of data analytics described in the…
From Ledgers to Intelligence Part 11: Self-Service Analytics When Tableau, Power BI and Qlik Put Dashboards in Everyone’s Hands
Digital Transformation | June 2026 For the first two decades of enterprise analytics, dashboards…
From Ledgers to Intelligence Part 10: The Lakehouse Delta Lake, Apache Iceberg, and the Convergence of Lake and Warehouse
Digital Transformation | June 2026 The data lake had solved the storage problem cheap,…
From Ledgers to Intelligence Part 9: Data Lakes The Promise of Storing Everything (and the Mess That Followed)
Digital Transformation | June 2026 In 2010, James Dixon the then-CTO of Pentaho wrote…
From Ledgers to Intelligence Part 8: The Modern Data Stack dbt, Fivetran, and the Composable Analytics Era
Digital Transformation | June 2026 By 2016, the cloud data warehouse was established. Snowflake,…
From Ledgers to Intelligence Part 7: The Cloud Data Warehouse How Redshift, BigQuery and Snowflake Rewrote the Rules
Digital Transformation | June 2026 The data warehouse had been the centrepiece of enterprise…
From Ledgers to Intelligence Part 6: The Hadoop Ecosystem What It Built, Why It Struggled, and What Replaced It
Digital Transformation | June 2026 The story of the Hadoop ecosystem is the story…
From Ledgers to Intelligence Part 5: Big Data’s Wake-Up Call The Google Papers and the Birth of Hadoop
Digital Transformation | May 2026 In 2003, Google published a paper that the company's…
From Ledgers to Intelligence Part 4: The BI Boom When Dashboards Became Corporate Infrastructure
Digital Transformation | May 2026 By the late 1990s, every large enterprise had a…