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Dismantling ELT: The Case for Graphs, Not Silos


ELT is a bridge between silos. A world without silos is a graph. I’ve been banging my drum recently about the ills of Conway’s Law and the need for low-coupling data architectures. In my Curse of Conway and the Data Space blog post, I explored how Conway’s Law manifests in the disconnect betwe

It is a structural issue stemming from siloed organizational designs, and it not only causes inefficiencies and poor collaboration but ultimately hinders business agility and effectiveness. The tools, the practices, all built around the premise that software and data teams don’t work closely together. Once you’ve seen that Conway’s Law exists, you see how it has manifested itself in myriad ways in the data analytics space.

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