[huy]

For those who're interested in learning more about the history and evolution of data infrastructure/BI - basically why and how it has come to this stage - check out this short guidebook [1] that my colleagues and I put together a few months back.

It goes into details how much relevance the practices of the past (OLAP, Kimball's modeling) has with the current changes in by the cloud era (MPP, cheap storage/compute, etc). Chapter 4 will be most interesting for HN audience: It walks through the different waves of data adoption ever since BI was invented in the 60-70s.

https://holistics.io/books/setup-analytics/

[sradman]

This sounds like an in-depth discussion of what the a16z document calls Blueprint 1: Modern Business Intelligence. I don’t know if the other two blueprints for Multimodal and AI are explored.