Jul 10
Where Medallion Architecture and Canonical Models Actually Meet
Medallion architecture has become the default mental model for organizing a data platform: land raw data in Bronze, clean and conform it in Silver, serve trusted, business-ready data from Gold. It’s simple, it’s intuitive, and it works, right up until three teams build three different “customer” tables and nobody can agree on the number in the boardroom. That failure mode isn’t a medallion…