Data architecture vs backend architecture

1 · Erik Bernhardsson · Jan. 10, 2019, 5 a.m.
A modern tech stack typically involves at least a frontend and backend but relatively quickly also grows to include a data platform. This typically grows out of the need for ad-hoc analysis and reporting but possibly evolves into a whole oil refinery of cronjobs, dashboards, bulk data copying, and much more. What generally pushes things into the data platform is (generally) that a number of things are Not latency critical so can run much later, maybe up to 24h (as opposed to reactive synchrono...