Towards an Understanding of Big Data Architecture — a Personal Reflection

In the middle of the journey of our life

I found myself astray in a dark wood

where the straight road had been lost sight of

(Dante’s Inferno Canto I, Translated by Seamus Heaney)

Intro

This is a reflection on big data architecture from the point of view of a former distributed systems coder and erstwhile financial services product manager who is pivoting back to coding, with a focus on data science…