Domain-Driven Development: Part 2
Canonical Data Models and Overlapping Connections In the previous article, I introduced and explained the approach to application development called…
Data Architecture Articles
Data Architecture Articles
Creating a Vision for Data Integration Modernization
Data is considered by some to be the world’s most valuable resource. Going far beyond the limitations of physical resources,…
Preventing Continuous Integration Pipeline Leaks
The notorious SolarWinds hack of 2020 sent shock waves across the software as a service world. In the attack, hackers…
Domain-Driven Development: Part 1
Bounded Contexts / Ubiquitous Language My new book, Data Model Storytelling,[i] contains a section describing some of the most significant…
All About Decentralized Cybersecurity
As an IT professional, you’re probably used to the constant treadmill of new ideas, technologies, and concepts that you need…
Are Data Lakehouses Secure and the Best of Both Worlds?
As we enter a new cloud-first era, advancements in technology have helped companies capture and capitalize on data as much…
The Never-Ending To-Do List of the DBA
If you are currently a DBA, I bet you can relate to the title of this article. Doesn’t it seem…
Data Mesh and Unified Data Access Governance
In her groundbreaking article, How to Move Beyond a Monolithic Data Lake to a Distributed Data Mesh, Zhamak Dehghani made the…
Data Mesh and Data Fabrics
Today’s enterprise data landscape is very complex. Data is coming to the enterprise from everywhere and anywhere at high speed…
DB2 and Nulls are Much Ado About Nothing
A null represents missing or unknown information at the column level. A null is not the same as 0 (zero)…