Steve Touw on benn.substack

Thanks for the reply. Yes, I agree with that, but it starts to turn into a slippery slope because you are again centralizing rather than decentralizing. To me centralization should happen at the metadata layer, that should be the glue that allows all the magic to happen on top. Magic = common language to query data (which, imo, should be SQL) and that can happen interactively (Presto) or in batch (dbt) and use metadata as the mechanism to create the meaningful abstractions so it all "works". Here's a shameless plug on something I wrote about this from an Immuta perspective (my company): https://www.immuta.com/articles/sql-is-your-data-mesh-api/