RoyOnData

There are no more hard problems in data

Why the data industry is stagnating while demand for data is growing

Apr 15 • 

Roy Hasson

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March 2025

One Truth, Many Copies: Why Single Source of Truth Isn’t What You Think It Is

One of the main promises of a data warehouse or lakehouse is a single source of truth for all of your data.

Mar 9 • 

Roy Hasson

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February 2025

AI is driving a massive shift towards lake-based data architectures

Not sure why your AI projects aren't going anywhere? This could be a reason.

Feb 11 • 

Roy Hasson

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January 2025

What's Iceberg catalog & why it's the future

Iceberg REST, Glue Data Catalog, Apache Polaris or Databricks Unity, which to use?

Jan 17 • 

Roy Hasson

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A Guide to AI Agents for Data Engineers

What are AI Agents

Jan 5 • 

Roy Hasson

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December 2024

Data industry in 2025

At the end of 2022 I wrote a post with a few predictions as we entered 2023.

Dec 23, 2024 • 

Roy Hasson

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Can Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio deliver on the Lakehouse + AI/ML vision?

The first thought that came to mind when I heard Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio announced at re:Invent 2024 was that this is it.

Dec 16, 2024 • 

Roy Hasson

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Transitioning into a Product Management role - it's a journey not a switch

I’ve been a product manager and leader for 8 years now, but I didn’t start here.

Dec 12, 2024 • 

Roy Hasson

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AWS S3 Tables and the race for managed storage

Brief intro to managed storage for analytics

Dec 10, 2024 • 

Roy Hasson

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May 2024

The race to own open data

The fight for metadata and access control in the Lakehouse

May 12, 2024 • 

Roy Hasson

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April 2024

Innovative data technologies to save money at scale

In data systems, cost is an unstoppable force that requires us to rethink and rebuild our architectures every few years.

Apr 5, 2024 • 

Roy Hasson

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January 2024

Finding business value is not a data engineering problem

If you’re asking your data engineers to demonstrate business value or find impactful projects to work on, you don’t have anything to offer them and they…

Jan 16, 2024 • 

Roy Hasson

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