
{"id":1095,"date":"2015-12-19T14:47:56","date_gmt":"2015-12-19T21:47:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briantroy.com\/blog\/?p=1095"},"modified":"2025-01-03T05:00:20","modified_gmt":"2025-01-03T05:00:20","slug":"data-architects-no-one-cares-about-your-erd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogarchive.briantroy.com\/index.php\/2015\/12\/19\/data-architects-no-one-cares-about-your-erd\/","title":{"rendered":"Data Architects &#8211; no one cares about your ERD&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Data Architecture has changed &#8211; massively &#8211; and most data practitioners haven&#8217;t caught on yet.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-1118 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/blogarchive.briantroy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/picture-2.jpg\" alt=\"Modern business concept\" width=\"900\" height=\"599\" \/>In a SaaS world &#8211; where business users can sign up for and use powerful platforms by simply signing up <em>we have to radically rethink what data architecture means<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>It certainly isn&#8217;t about your ERD &#8211; <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>your elegant description of the data at rest<\/em>&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>It is, however, about how that data is accessed, shared, and moves about the technology topology enabling business agility and experimentation.<\/p>\n<p>So stop using your ERD as a substitute for what a modern data architecture actually requires &#8211; a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Domain-Driven-Design-Tackling-Complexity-Software-ebook\/dp\/B00794TAUG\">domain model<\/a> and APIs that enable simple data integration at the point of need.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Data Architecture has changed &#8211; massively &#8211; and most data practitioners haven&#8217;t caught on yet. In a SaaS world &#8211; where business users can sign up for and use powerful platforms by simply signing up we have to radically rethink what data architecture means. It certainly isn&#8217;t about your ERD &#8211; your elegant description of&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogarchive.briantroy.com\/index.php\/2015\/12\/19\/data-architects-no-one-cares-about-your-erd\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Data Architects &#8211; no one cares about your ERD&#8230;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,28,36],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogarchive.briantroy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1095"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogarchive.briantroy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogarchive.briantroy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogarchive.briantroy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogarchive.briantroy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1095"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogarchive.briantroy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1095\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3373,"href":"https:\/\/blogarchive.briantroy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1095\/revisions\/3373"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogarchive.briantroy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogarchive.briantroy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogarchive.briantroy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}