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The Medallion Architecture for lakehouses (Bronze, Silver, Gold) has done wonders for helping organisations understand and communicate a modern data platform. It’s clean, memorable, and easy. But while it’s a helpful starting point, it’s not a silver-bullet data strategy. It’s a conceptual model, not a detailed roadmap. And once you begin building a real data lakehouse, cracks start to appear in the model. Bronze might be “raw,” but do we store data as-is or transform into ta

If you’ve ever felt like the world of data tools is an ever-increasing list of acronyms and buzzwords that mean less and less by the day - Excel, SQL, ETL, BI, warehouses, lakes, lakehouses - you’re not alone. Over the last decade working with organisations, especially in primary industries, I’ve seen one issue come up time and time again: We from-excel-to-lakehouses-a-practical-history-of-data-tools-and-how-to-know-which-ones-you-actuallyaren’t struggling because we lack dat