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The Data Lakehouse is Burning Down
Lessons from a career of cleaning up data dumpster fires. Imagine building a beautiful lake house on a pristine lake with gorgeous mountains in the surrounding distance, and a clean beach front in a relaxing neighborhood. Then in a couple of years, you find cracks in your foundation, the water becomes polluted by chemical runoff, and your property value plummets. This is exactly what happens when you build a data lakehouse poorly. All initial attempts start out well. Users ar

Bill Donofrio
Jul 65 min read


Data Warehouse vs. Data Lakehouse
The video explores the fundamental differences between Lakehouses and Data Warehouses, highlighting how Lakehouses merge elements of data lakes and warehouses to support both structured and unstructured data, enabling diverse processing workloads such as batch processing, streaming, and machine learning. Utilizing cloud storage for scalability and flexibility, Lakehouses provide a unified platform for various data types. In contrast, Data Warehouses are specifically designed

David Giard
Jun 101 min read


Best Practices for Building a Reliable Lakehouse
This is a practical playbook for building a production-grade data lakehouse. It walks through foundational principles — naming conventions, least-privilege access, automated CI/CD testing — before diving into medallion architecture. Furthermore, metadata-driven design patterns show how configuration tables and dynamic notebook orchestration eliminates hard-coded pipelines.

Bill Donofrio
May 301 min read
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