Viktor Kessler·Oct 25There Is No Unstructured DataPick up a supplier contract. It is a PDF, forty pages, scanned at a slight angle. In ten seconds you know who the parties are, when it…
Viktor Kessler·Oct 19Two Owners, One Dataset: Why Governance Has to Shift LeftMax runs the order system. Every order is a row in his Postgres database, and he knows exactly what each column means, who may read it and…
Viktor Kessler·May 18Separation of Powers Is a Security PatternWhat 250 years of constitutional democracy can teach us about building trustworthy data systems
Viktor Kessler·Feb 18Open Data Immunity: Rethinking Governance for the Age of AI AgentsEvery data architect I know is obsessed with Apache Iceberg. We argue over partition evolution, sub-second query performance in StarRocks…
Viktor Kessler·Dec 15, 2025A simple question: Is your data a competitive advantage for your company?Almost every company answers this question with yes.
Viktor Kessler·Sep 21, 2025The Unexpected Gift: How Iceberg Benefits Both Customers and VendorsThe Pain of the Past + Iceberg’s Role
Viktor Kessler·Sep 16, 2025There Is No Data Strategy — Only Business Strategy Supported by DataTL;DR: This article isn’t about technical specs, file formats, or query engines — it’s for business leaders. A Lakehouse is a strategic…
Viktor Kessler·Aug 26, 2025Is the Database Dead? The Plot Twist in Data’s New EraFor decades, the database was the ultimate data hub. It handled everything: transactions (OLTP) and analytics (OLAP), all in one monolithic…
Viktor Kessler·May 10, 2025How Apache Iceberg Ends the Era of Painful MigrationsFor decades, enterprise data has been on the move.
