Takeaway Summary – Putting It All Together

In this chapter, we will summarize some best practices. We will try not to rehash what has extensively been presented but rather to leave you with a few key takeaways that we think you will want to use on your journey.

In this summary, we will recap some of the practices from other chapters and we’ll begin with how important people, technology, and processes are to your engineering effort. All too often an engineer will become focused on some interesting feature of a capability within the architecture that is exciting and challenging. Losing sight of the big picture is a constant threat to your success. The data engineer has to remain mindful of the big-picture view of the entire effort, even while tackling detailed challenges.

This chapter will recap the challenges that cut across all capabilities of your solution designs: business, security, privacy, knowledge engineering, and artificial intelligence. The goal of this...