You would possibly think there’s no value in reading about what not to construct. However the proliferation of information and analytical platform tools, the proven fact that the Modern Data Stack (MDS) is losing traction, and the various articles about ‘constructing an information platform’ have led me to issue this warning.
It’s a warning to IT professionals who work for larger corporations. As every consultant tends to reply all questions, ‘it depends’ in your specific situation whether this warning is relevant. So determine 4 yourself based on the background information I’m about to supply here.
Perhaps because Zhamak Dehghani called it “data infrastructure as a platform”, or since the cloud providers sell us “Data Platform as a Service (DPaaS — to not be confused with Data Protection as a Service)”, or because constructing a platform is just in vogue, we’re caught up in this concept.
But what’s an information platform actually?
Let’s take the cloud computing model of a platform to raised understand the worth proposition. It provides developers with a platform to construct, deploy, and manage applications without coping with the underlying infrastructure. PaaS…
