Challenge #3 – Evolving data repository patterns – identifying big rocks for data engineers
As data engineering terrain continually expands, a deluge of data repository patterns has flooded the market, each promising a seamless pathway to robust data architecture. However, amid this deluge, it’s imperative for data engineers, especially those embarking on this journey, to align their designs to the decided upon foundational principles. These principles will be applied to the solution as the big rocks to be handled first. These patterns must be effectively applied to the common challenges down to the smallest as the solution architecture is formulated. This section unravels these large items: data immutability, lineage tracking, data quality preservation, scalability, security and compliance, data discoverability and accessibility, and cost-efficiency (later chapters will depict the principles to be applied to them). Please refer to Figure 2.4 and Figure 2.5:
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