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Databricks LTAP: The 40-Year OLTP/OLAP Wall Just Got a Sledgehammer

Databricks claims LTAP collapses the four-decade divide between transactional and analytical databases into a single copy of data. No CDC, no ETL, no copies. Here’s why it matters and where it could fail.

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clickhouse

Normalization is a Trap: Why ClickHouse Wants Your Data Wide and Flat

Why OLAP architectures demand denormalized wide tables, using ClickHouse as a case study to break down execution engine differences and architectural trade-offs.

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business logic

The Business Logic Holy War: Why Your ‘Single Source of Truth’ Is Already Compromised

The debate over where business logic belongs in modern data architectures reveals an uncomfortable truth: the ideal of centralizing everything in the transformation layer collides with messy reality. Here’s what actually works.

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data architecture

When Dimensional Modeling Becomes Technical Debt: Challenging Kimball’s Orthodoxy in the Modern Data Stack

The rise of cloud analytics and modern BI tools is forcing data engineers to question when strict dimensional modeling becomes cargo cult engineering rather than best practice.

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