Why are we so bad at this modern data stack? w/ Chad Sanderson.
Catalog & Cocktails: The Honest, No-BS Data Podcast
The Transformation Layer Is a Convenient Context
Mapping layer is kind of human, literally just saying, a a is equal to b here. Then i need to actually implement that, that mapping, right? I'm getting this data from this source, whatever it is. That could be something that my engine the system that the suffor engineers built. And then there's your knowledge layer - what do we want our data warehouse itself to manifest? Like, what should the tables look like? How do we want to aggregate these events to some entity? In that world, like you could define that through some config in the descriptive layer and then the transformations can happen,. It can all be automated, because the mapping has occurred, and you
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