A Case for Transience—Building Better Data Architectures by Using Throw-away Data

Tim Burns
4 min readApr 16, 2024
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Transcience in Data Architecture

The modern data architecture spans a wide range of data storage. A few examples of the data engines the modern data architect encounters include big data engines like Databricks and Snowflake, caching systems like Redis, and sequential queues like SQS. When data needs…

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