Data warehouse

What is a customer? Who are we serving? It depends on which customer you're talking about.

We can store all these definitions in a data warehouse.

Semantically, I can certainly describe and calculate various metrics with the same word.

Maybe an agent can retrieve these things, but again, somebody still has to decide which one of these applies to which agent, which use case and so forth.

And it's just interesting how the term data mesh and data products have been so co-opted and abused.

I think she kind of left it behind for a bit.

And it reminds me a lot of what Bill Inman went through with Data Warehouse as well, where vendors will package up data warehouse as a technology which it certainly is not right data warehouse is an architecture it's an architectural pattern it was never meant to be a technology but of course you know bill it's gone on the record as saying this vendors will do what they do which is take your work and and bastardize it to you know their um their needs and sell that as the quick and easy solution because nobody wants to do the hard work they want to buy the solution right so why do we keep buying the next thing this is very interesting why do we keep buying You know, the new shiny tool, expecting, you know, that this will magically solve our problems.

I think a lot of it comes down to incentives, right? So if we kind of look at the laundry list of things, vendors need a compelling reason for the next purchase, right? So they always need something new to offer you.

What, what, second book, right? Is this book number two? Or did you write, have you written others?

I actually did write a book before for O'Reilly, actually, on Data Warehouse.

But I worked in a company where I wasn't really supposed to put my name on the books.

I never did.