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Data Stack Articles

Technical analysis of why the modern data stack is broken. Real-world lessons on building unified, scalable data platforms without the bloat.

Rethinking the Lakehouse
JULY 30TH, 2025
Yannick Utard

Rethinking the Lakehouse

Architecture, Performance, Data Stack

Breaking down our storage and query architecture: why we're leaning into Apache Iceberg and why DuckDB is emerging as our real-time query engine of choice.

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The Data Stack Is Broken
MAY 20TH, 2025
Sylvain Utard

The Data Stack Is Broken

Data Stack, Architecture, Product

Most data sits idle—trapped behind complexity, bloated budgets, and brittle tooling. The modern data stack promised agility but delivered a slow, siloed maze.

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The stack is broken: slow, fragmented, reactive. Our manifesto is a call to wake it up. It's time for data that works like your best teammate: always on, always thinking, always ready to help.

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