Martyn Rhisiart Jones
Córdoba, Spain, 17th November 2025
(The Ruthless, No-Bullshit, Slightly Evil Edition)
Martyn Richard Jones, Galicia, 14th May 2025.
Remember that old story about Lassie, the Yorkshire collie dog?
And, how Lassie would run across the Scottish highlands, lowlands and Yorkshire moors.
Aww, wasn’t she so cute?
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Martyn Jones, Brooklyn, 27th September 2024
Narrator: Another false meme doing the rounds is that Data Warehousing necessarily means monolithic databases. This is not what data warehouses have been for many businesses.
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Physician, heal thyself!
Narrator: Consider this. If the originators, acolytes and sycophants of data mesh hadn’t been so free and easy with how they created and perpetrated technical debt, especially data model and data quality-related technical debt, then we wouldn’t need data mesh to try and get us out of the mess these sloppy developer people put us into in the first place.
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Narrator: It doesn’t matter what you are trying to do, or even if you know what you are trying to do, but if in doubt, blame the quality of the data. There was a time when data quality was a massive impediment to business data integration.
Data quality assurance was a glint in IT’s eye. A far-away place that nobody knew how to get to.
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