"An exciting opportunity… or is it?" - Section 1 of 14: THE DATA ARCHITECTURE CONSTRUCTION PROJECT (free excerpts)

This is the first part of the chapter titled “The Data Architecture Construction Project”, from the book “The Data Garden And Other Data Allegories”.

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An exciting opportunity… or is it?

You’ve been waiting for this for a long time. It’s the opportunity you’ve been training for and it’s a great honour. After many years of working in various different roles, working your way up the ranks and building experience across numerous positions, you’ve finally made it. What you don’t realise, just yet, is quite what you’re getting yourself into.

Three months ago, you successfully completed the build of a new business estate on the outskirts of Master Data City. It used cutting edge new technologies and has become widely recognised as a masterpiece of data engineering. It’s become the catalyst for a total transformation of the fortunes of those living and working in the area and prompted a significant increase in investment in similar developments nearby.

Fifty miles North of Master Data City is Data Insight Town, which has been growing rapidly in recent years. There’s been a lot of hype in the media about the great opportunities there, and data people from across the Data Country are flocking to make their fortunes amongst the pioneers who have spearheaded the recent new wave of products and services from this emerging powerhouse of value.

The Data Country’s government can see the potential of Data Insights Town and have drawn up plans for an infrastructure project that will create a new business hub for innovation and will provide transport links to help data people travel more quickly and comfortably to, from and across the town. It will help people get to work and will also provide them with easier access to data shops and other data amenities, more easily and cheaply than they can get to them today.

You’ve been appointed as the Chief Architect and Programme Director for the initiative. There are several teams of architects and builders that have been transferred to you to lead and you have a sizeable budget. It’s a big responsibility and you can’t wait.

Your primary responsibility is to build the new “Data Lakes” development on the far side of Data Insight Town, and to create a high-speed data highway, which will give data people easy access to the new development and its cutting-edge facilities.

There was also a passing mention of the need to tidy up some older parts of the town, where needed, but you’ve been assured that your focus will be on building the Data Lakes, to spearhead the regeneration of this part of the town and enable the next wave of innovation and business ventures.

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