Sunday, February 10, 2019

One of the laws of data management

Quick thought: The longer you use old tools to glue old systems together, the less likely you'll be able to integrate or manage new problems.  (There's a bit of a leap there, but not much.)

One of those variables needs to change over time for your operations to stay healthy.  You stick to one toolset for a decade and you won't be able to hire anyone with less than a decade's experience in that toolset to manage it. 

Which you may choose to do, for lots of reasons.  But you're stuck in a decades-old toolset then.  Do you have any idea what you can't do because of your current toolset?

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