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Designing Cloud Data Platforms
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Designing Cloud Data Platforms

by Lynda Partner, Danil Zburivsky
May 2021
Beginner to intermediate
336 pages
11h
English
Manning Publications
Audiobook available
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7 Metadata layer architecture

This chapter covers

  • Understanding data platform technical metadata vs. business metadata
  • Leveraging metadata to simplify data platform management
  • Architecting the optimal metadata layer
  • Designing a metadata model with multiple domains
  • Understanding metadata layer implementation options
  • Evaluating commercial and open source metadata options

In this chapter, we’ll help you get a clear understanding of what we mean by data platform internal metadata and why it is important to the operation of a data platform.

We’ll cover the difference between configuration and activity metadata and how each can be used, using examples of a data platform with growing complexity. We will show why the metadata layer should become ...

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