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Martyn Rhisiart Jones
Aranjuez, 20th December 2023
The Medallion Architecture, or: How We Learned to Stop Thinking and Love the Bronze Table
Somewhere, right now, as you read this, a data engineer is renaming a table. Again. They’re calling it Bronze, because that’s what the priests say it must be called. Bronze. Not “raw”, not “stuff we barely understand”, not “this arrived at 3AM and no one knows why”. Bronze. They do it solemnly, reverently, like a monk copying out the Book of Leviticus but with YAML. And when they are done, they will feel a sense of calm, because order has been restored to the universe. Temporarily.
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