Our Journey to 3K! ✈️
All things Modern Data, Community Initiatives, and New Resources!
We're thrilled to share that Modern Data 101 has hit a new milestone with
a readership of over 3000 readers on Substack!
We’re glad to see a diverse group from all around the world unifying under the ambition of building better data. Our global reach now spans 111 countries with a spectrum of data whizzes—from Data Product Managers and CDOs to Data Engineers and Architects across the world. So many great conversations, collaborations, and even constructive disagreements because what’s a community without some healthy opposition?
Voices You Bookmarked 🔖
With 20+ Co-Authors, including top industry veterans, in-house experts, and solid curators, the Modern Data 101 Substack has been a melting pot of perspectives, innovations, and ideas on productising data and enhancing data cultures.
Here’s featuring the voices that helped us climb from 2K to 3K by expressing, connecting, and collaborating across community initiatives!
We actively collaborate with experts in the data space to surface diverse perspectives and value to the community. Feel free to reach out if you have hot ideas brewing!
*Note: All submissions are vetted for quality & relevance.
Stories that Made it Happen 🧡
🏛️ Foundations
Some of our top stories focused on the core foundations of data products, data stack layers, and architectural essentials from the top experts in data and tech.
Medallion Approach to Data Products: Beyond the Promised “Gold”
Tearing Down the Monolith | The Rise of Microservices & Modular Architecture
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💰 Monetisation, Cost-Optimisation, & Interoperability
At the end of the data any and all conversations around data boils down to business. We’ve had folks weigh in on the gaps b/w data & revenue, transparent impact analysis, significant operational savings with goto tools like Snowflake & dbt, and more!
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♻️ Governance: Security, Quality, Semantics, and More
We had some of the best voices in Governance and Data Modeling weigh in on feasible yet effective governance strategies, decentralisation/federated governance, hands-on semantics and the bare-bone essentials of the popular semantic layer.
How to Create a Governance Strategy that fits decentralisation like a glove
Semantics and Data Product Enablement: A Practitioner’s Secret
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🔌 Use Cases
It’s essential to share the applications of the things we build and love to talk about. We got some of the best minds to share their implementation stories with data products, semantic layers, and modular architectures. This time, we dipped into usage analytics, LLMs, and Marketing Ops.
Ensuring LLMs speak the truth: Fostering near-perfect reliability
Solving Usage Analytics Roadblocks with Model-First Data Products
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What else is up at the MD101 Lab 🧪
The Data Product Playbook Hit 250+ Downloads!
Since its recent launch, the playbook has been downloaded over 250 times and counting! We’re thrilled with the response and quality feedback so far to this 6-week guide we’ve built with industry experts and practitioners. Get your free copy now!
Stronger Than Ever LinkedIn Community!
With almost 5,000 of you chiming in on our daily updates and info bytes, we are overwhelmed with your constant support and collaboration. We definitely weren’t expecting to reach so many of you within a short time.
As a token of genuine appreciation, we launched The Data Navigator for our LinkedIn community and witnessed a burst of almost 1000 subscribers within a day!
How is it different from our Substack?
While our Substack newsletter feeds your appetite for top-notch data content, The Data Navigator will be your go-to digest for everything sizzling in the modern data world. We’re talking hot topics, top events & news, must-read content, shoutouts to our standout community members, and much more!
Upcoming Treats! 🍩
Analytics Heroes
A Dedicated POV from Analytics & Data Engineers — We've had a blast chatting with our Analytics Heroes who live and breathe data every day! They spilled the beans on their challenges, clever workarounds, and why the field is buzzing about Data Products in this ever-evolving landscape. 👩🏻💻
Playlist coming shortly..
The State of Data Products
We’ve scoured the data jungle for the hottest news and cooked up a wild story about the biggest trends. This isn’t your grandpa’s data report! It’s a turbocharged ride for anyone who wants to dominate the data world. Buckle up, data explorer! 👩🏻🚀
It’s a Long Way Ahead, Thanks for Being Here 🧡
Stay tuned on moderndata101.com for more actionable resources from us!
MD101 Archives - Find product strategies that work for data, concepts, approaches, how-tos, to-dos, and more!
MD101 Curation - Stop the content overwhelm. Find all the top resources from the best sources, curated with time and care by subject matter experts in the community- all in one place!
MD101 Directory - Your go-to directory to discover top voices and experts in data products, data mesh, productised analytics & AI/ML, and more!
If you’re new here, join the 7000+ strong MD101 community and ride the ups and downs of data with us! 🎢
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