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Medallion Architecture: 30-Year-Old Patterns in a Databricks Coat of Paint

A growing backlash questions whether Databricks’ popular medallion architecture represents genuine innovation or simply repackages decades-old data modeling patterns with fresh marketing.

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The Medallion Architecture Debate: Why Nobody Agrees on Silver vs. Gold

Exploring the hidden inconsistencies in how teams implement raw-silver-gold layering models, from transformation logic disagreements to the platinum layer controversy.

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The Postgres Betrayal: When Your Database Becomes a Data Lakehouse

Snowflake just open-sourced pg_lake, letting Postgres talk directly to Iceberg tables. The SQL you know now touches petabytes.

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Parquet Was Never Enough: Why Your Raw Data Lake Is a Data Swamp Waiting to Happen

While Parquet excels at storage efficiency, it lacks transactional integrity. Open table formats like Iceberg, Delta Lake, and Hudi are increasingly seen as essential for reliable data pipelines by adding ACID compliance and schema evolution.

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The Great Data Tooling Debate: SQL vs. Spark Ecosystem

Enterprise data teams are increasingly questioning the need for complex tooling stacks when SQL in platforms like Snowflake can handle most data transformations.

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