Real-world experience navigating a modern data architecture landscape. Thomas Mager will reflect on the initial motivations that sparked this journey, the structure of his contemporary data architecture, the value he could generate, and the obstacles he faced along the way. Additionally, he will offer valuable insights into his current and future endeavors, incl. leveraging SaaS, advancing AI initiatives, and rapidly developing new regulatory reports, all facilitated by the robust framework of…

This session looks at how adoption of open table formats by data warehouse database management vendors and advances in SQL are making it possible to merge siloed analytical systems into a new federated data architecture supporting multiple analytical workloads.

Target Audience: Data architect, enterprise architect, CDO, data engineer
Prerequisites: Basic understanding of data architecture & databases
Level: Advanced

Extended Abstract:
In the last 12-18 months we have seen many different…

Data Mesh is a decentralized approach to enterprise data management. A Data Mesh consists of Data Products, which can be composed to form higher-order Data Products. In order for a Data Mesh to scale, this composition needs to be safe and efficient, which calls for automated testing. In the Microservices architecture, scalably testing the interaction between services is sometimes achieved by an approach called Consumer-Driven Contract Testing. This session explores how this approach can be…