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Richard Glew's avatar

Really great analysis. I've been thinking much the same for a while now and also chewing on how, as we get better at understanding what it takes to create that utopian, unified data platform, and the lengthy list of tools and capability it's gonna need. How do we encourage better behaviours and architectures when everything is so damn expensive? We have an industry with a rich history of gouging its customers and making every little thing ultra expensive. I can only hope that we see what happened in the software world over a decade ago, and see a surge of free open source tooling driven by engineers fed up with doing everything so badly. Given the influx of software engineers into the data field, I am crossing my fingers.. As Dave points out in his comment, there is value in decoupling a semantic layer for data from visualisations and dashboards... It also goes far beyond just that.

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Jared Hillam's avatar

Hi Ben, I’d like to have you join us on Data Sharks. Let me know if you’re interested. https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLIBwmCV8YuLPOKsqwovvBgMhBDwYYyB85

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