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Data Mesh in Action

Data Mesh in Action

Revolutionize the way your organization approaches data with a data mesh!

2022

Jacek Majchrzak, et al.

Jacek Majchrzak, Marian Siwiak, et al.

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Dashboards Suck

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Nov 4, 2024

Dashboards Suck — How To Make Them Suck Less

Dashboards suck, but it’s all we got. So let’s make them suck a little bit less.

Dashboards Suck — How To Make Them Suck Less

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Unpacking Business Open Source

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Jul 28, 2021

How To Build the Next Mega Open Source Project

8 lessons learned from a a3-dimensional framework for understanding how to turn your open-source project into the next WordPress or Linux.

How To Build the Next Mega Open Source Project

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Unpacking Business Open Source

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Jun 11, 2021

How to Become The Next 30 Billion $$$ Data Company

14 thoughts on the economics of the open-source data space and how to become the next MongoDB or Databricks

How to Become The Next 30 Billion $$$ Data Company

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3d ago

Waiting on AI might kill your professional services firm.

At MAIA, we’re doing more and more of our own accounting and other things we’d previously hire paid professionals for (web work, videos,…)…

Waiting on AI might kill your professional services firm.

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Dashboards Suck

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Oct 29

‌My engineer killed our BI tool in a weekend

Yesterday I changed my mind on what analytics software our startup should build instead of buying. (Well, it’ll be a week ago by the time…

‌My engineer killed our BI tool in a weekend

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Dashboards Suck

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Oct 26

Claude killed my north-star dashboard

Dashboards suck, but it’s all we got. Well, not anymore. When I became Head of Product for MAIA, one of the first things I did was to…

Claude killed my north-star dashboard

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Oct 22

You don’t have 47 problems. You have one.

Quality matching makes every part of your system look equally broken. It’s a lie. Here’s how to find the real bottleneck in two hours.

You don’t have 47 problems. You have one.

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Oct 1

I wrote 220 posts. These are the only 6 things I think I actually learned.

No more AI. I’ll write less. And I’m going back to the harder problem: data.

I wrote 220 posts. These are the only 6 things I think I actually learned.

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Infuse Data — Into All Of Your Products

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Aug 3

Agentic databases aren’t agentic.

Why the fuck is nobody letting the database act?

Agentic databases aren’t agentic.

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Dashboards Suck

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Jul 27

The next $100B data company will be embedded.

You’ve used embedded analytics today and can’t name who built it.

The next $100B data company will be embedded.

Sven Balnojan, PhD

Sven Balnojan, PhD

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Head of Product at MAIA | ex Head of Mkt | Author | AI & Data Expert | Newsletter at http://thdpth.com/

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