Archive - Modern Data 101

Decentralizing an Organization: Beyond Data Mesh

Architecting the decentralized enterprise, the symbiotic exchanges between data mesh and "service mesh," and the role of unified data platforms

Mar 5 • Vlad Radziuk

How Long Until We Call AI Agents Data Products

Most teams treat agents like experiments. The ones that survive production treat them like data products with users, feedback loops, and a roadmap.

Mar 2 • Alejandro Aboy

February 2026

Data Ownership in Practice: Defining Decision Rights in Enterprise Data Governance

Why Effective Governance Depends on Explicit Authority, Risk Acceptance, and Designed Decision Rights

Feb 26 • Antonio Sánchez Gómez

The Semantic Infrastructure Opportunity: Building Meaningful Operational Frameworks

Ontology Pipeline as a strategic framework for semantic engineers to prove their professional value by linking abstract models to functional entity…

Feb 23 • Jessica Talisman

7 Minutes to Understand the New Spark Streaming Feature that Changes Everything

How Spark 4.1’s Real-Time Mode Breaks the Micro-Batch Barrier and Brings Millisecond Latency to Structured Streaming

Feb 19 • Vu Trinh

Architectural Standards for Data Products and AI Interactions: Emergent & Aligned Patterns

The Emergence of Unified Standards: From MCPs and Data Products to Unified Data Platforms. Unifying Purpose, Platform, and Protocol to Scale…

Feb 16 • Animesh Kumar and Travis Thompson

Never seen a data quality issue that wasn’t actually an ownership problem | John Wernfeldt

Why most “data quality issues” are actually ownership failures

Feb 12 • John Wernfeldt

From Policy to Practice: Making Data Governance Real

How governance starts having measurable returns only after disappearing

Feb 9 • Olawale Oyeneye

Modern Data Report 2026: What 500+ Data Leaders and Experts Say on AI-Readiness

Global signals on data activation and AI readiness from 540+ data leaders, subject matter experts, and practitioners from across 64 countries and ~30…

Feb 4

Solving the Engineering Problem that Makes AI Actually Useful: Building the Axle

Precision-engineering for the four tolerance challenges of enterprise AI

Feb 2 • Sagar Paul

January 2026

Demystifying SKOS for Practitioners: A Practical Guide to Controlled Vocabularies

Semantics, standards, and structure: how SKOS, taxonomies, and controlled vocabularies power interoperability, governance, and meaning at scale in…

Jan 29 • Heather Hedden

A Lean Approach to AI: A Case to Withstand Existing Gaps in AI Adoption Strategies

Why AI stalls at PoCs, how leadership reflexes and vendor hype break delivery, and what a Lean approach can do differently

Jan 26 • Brij Mohan Singh and Ritwika Chowdhury

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