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A Daily Lexicon of Trustworthy Data

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modern data stack

/ˈmɒd.ərn ˈdeɪ.tə stæk/ - n.

1 [colloq.] A stack whose defining feature is the year you bought it.Keep. Punchy.This is the problem.

Working definition

2. A loosely coupled set of cloud-native, mostly managed tools — ingestion, warehouse, transformation, BI — assembled around a central store.

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See also

composable data stackSome assembly required, sold as a philosophy.
data platformIt did not fail to create ownership. It succeeded at revealing there was none.
data warehouseWhere data goes to be agreed upon, eventually, by people who have since left.
reference architectureA diagram everyone references and no system resembles.