Posts by this author

Apr 16, 2025
Post views count 3.1K
Post comments count0
Post likes count1

Validations and Correctness: How UDM enables Devs to build for Data Quality, Uptime, and Velocity

Introduction Ensuring data correctness and integrity is crucial in any data-driven system. Poor data quality can lead to incorrect insights, disrupted business processes, and failed pipelines. The Unified Data Model (UDM) enforces robust validation rules to maintain high data quality, ensuring consistency across all assets. In this post, we’ll exp...

Feb 14, 2025
Post views count 3.9K
Post comments count1
Post likes count2

Leveraging the Unified Data Model: A Practical Example of Data Modeling

Introduction In today’s data-driven world, businesses need a structured approach to managing foundational data assets. The Unified Data Model (UDM) provides a scalable and governed framework for modeling key entities while keeping data assets maintainable and extensible. In this post, we will use a hypothetical business entity as an example to de...

Dec 9, 2024
Post views count 2.2K
Post comments count0
Post likes count3

Why a Unified Data Model is Critical: Lessons from Building Microsoft’s Semantic Layer

Introduction Some years ago, we were wrestling with a persistent issue in our data stack. Every team had their own way of collecting and structuring data. What was a simple query for one team became a debugging nightmare for another. Discovering the right dataset felt like looking for a needle in a haystack, and standardizing definitions was alm...