Feb 1 · 11 min read · Does my company need data preboarding? We often say that every company that trades data in files with data partners already does data preboarding, somehow. That’s not marketing spin, it’s absolutely true. If you receive data you must have some proces...
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Jan 30 · 7 min read · Now and then I make the rounds of the data QC players to see what’s new. These are the data observability systems, mainly, but also some data governance and data catalog tools. The observability companies include Soda.io, Great Expectations, Monte Ca...
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Jan 27 · 6 min read · The decision to build or buy comes up constantly in commerce. With software, rolling your own often looks innocuous in the moment, but ultimately may be a life or death choice. Time to market, time to refresh, time to fix, time between failures, and ...
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Nov 22, 2025 · 6 min read · Over the weekend I dug into an eclectic array of iPaaS, ERP, and EDI systems. The new, the older, and the 80s. Catching up on the CsvPath Framework competition. What can I say? It was too cold to paint the house. And actually, it got pretty interesti...
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Nov 6, 2025 · 7 min read · I had two unusual but illuminating conversations in the past few days about with engineers about CsvPath Framework and data preboarding. One of them made me do a double-take. You'll like that one, I promise. The other conversation was less surprising...
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Sep 28, 2025 · 8 min read · Let me tell you about a data ingestion problem that was incurred due to a faulty preboarding process. I'm changing a few details but this is basically how it happened. Ultimately the teams got through it. Their data preboarding process got better. Th...
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Sep 25, 2025 · 2 min read · We all know bringing data into the enterprise from data partners that you don't control is hard. Monday mornings you yearn for green lights across the pipeline status board. Sometimes you get them. On those other days, how about a hot mug of it-all-h...
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Sep 15, 2025 · 5 min read · Data governance is not only about controlling the storage and use of data. It is also about managing and assessing historic metadata about that data. Data governance is of second-order importance for most people. When I attempt to communicate the imp...
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