The 80/20 rule — “Shared” Data Platforms or… “Sharded” or… both?

It’s been several months since I wrote my last Avant-garde your Dimensions — Part 1 — Data Engineering by a Pragmatist | by Boris Serebrinskiy | Medium, that gap interrupting my weekly cadence. Today, in fact, is exactly 5 months since war broke out in Ukraine, where I went to school and spent most of my adult life before I came to America. Back on February 24th I couldn’t bring myself to write, the blog seemed almost an inappropriate vocation when your country is in flames. The shock has somewhat worn off, my country is still there, but I kept…