The Pendulums of Data

<p>The data industry rarely moves in a straight line. We swing from centralized to decentralized, batch to real-time, general-purpose to specialized, abstraction to control, and governance to self-service.</p><p>In this episode, I unpack why these cycles keep repeating, what forces push the pendulum in each direction, and why every successful architecture eventually creates the conditions for its own backlash.</p>