Introducing the 'Smoll Data Stack'

The Small, Minimal, Open, Low effort, Low power (SMOLL) datastack1, is a pun with ambitions to grow into something larger, and more educational. I wanted a cheap platform to work on improving my data engineering skills and so I re-purposed some hardware for this project. A raspberry pi 3 with ubuntu & a NAS that I’ve installed a postgres database into. What people call the ‘modern data stack’ is usually [1] a cloud data warehouse such as Snowflake, Bigquery or Redshift2 (In my opinion a data warehouse is something that holds all the data in table like format and your transformations are done with SQL).