Opinionated Insights
What the Data Industry
Gets Wrong
We write what vendors won't say. Blunt technical analysis from practitioners who spend 40+ hours/week inside Databricks environments.
Why Snowflake Users Are Moving to Delta Lake in 2025
The TCO argument everyone is pretending doesn't exist
Snowflake's compute-storage separation model made sense in 2018. By 2025, it's become the primary driver of data infrastructure overspend for organisations running >10TB analytical workloads. Delta Lake on Databricks with Photon-engine compute isn't just faster — it's structurally cheaper at scale. We ran the numbers for five clients who made the switch.
Unity Catalog Is Not a Feature — It's a Governance-First Architecture Decision
And most companies are still treating it like an optional add-on
Every Databricks implementation we inherit from other vendors has the same problem: Unity Catalog was bolted on after the fact. The result is three metastores, inconsistent RBAC policies, and a lineage graph that looks like a 90s org chart. Governance-first architecture means Unity Catalog goes in on day one — before your first Delta table is written.
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