Deciphering Data Architectures by James Serra

Four architectures, four sets of vendors insisting theirs is the future, and one architect who has to choose. James Serra’s book does the job the marketing will not: it explains what a modern data warehouse, a data fabric, a data lakehouse and a data mesh each actually are, and under what conditions each is the right answer.

What the book covers

• Big data foundations, and why the old warehouse stopped being sufficient
• Data lakes, relational warehouses and the storage layer beneath both
• The modern data warehouse architecture in practice
• Data fabric: metadata-driven integration across distributed sources
• Data lakehouse: the open-table-format convergence of lake and warehouse
• Data mesh: domain ownership, data as a product, and the organisational demands it makes
• A decision framework for choosing between them, plus governance, security and migration

Who it’s for

Data architects, engineering leaders, and analytics managers making a platform decision they will live with for years. Vendor-neutral, which is rarer in this subject than it should be.

Edition details

• Author: James Serra
• Publisher: O’Reilly Media
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Format: Paperback
• ISBN: 978-1098150761
• Language: English

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