Data-modeling

Information Integration is the discipline of determining which Concept each data record belongs to - and that depends entirely on Definitions. Part 1 of a three-part series on Definitions as the foundation of every Data Warehouse.

Subtraction at the operational layer, deepening at the modeling layer. The local Postgres sidecar is gone, deploy and execute are ~2× faster, --full-refresh now works at workflow, entity, or attribute scope, and many-to-many relationships are correct and tested across PostgreSQL and BigQuery.

Standardise the identifier definition across systems, and integration follows automatically. Collision prevention is a structural consequence, not a separate mechanism.

A practitioner methodology for going from "we need analytics" to a working prototype in hours. Five steps, three groups, one information model. Refined across insurance, automotive, telecom, streaming, and market research.

Why we built Daana CLI to reclaim lost data modeling knowledge and make proven architectural patterns accessible through modern declarative tooling.