Implementation

The counterintuitive truth about lakehouse implementation is that it’s more sociology than technology. Successful implementations don’t fail because of technical issues—they fail because organizations try to map old mental models onto new architectural paradigms. Like trying to run a modern city with medieval town planning, it fundamentally misses the point.

The teams that succeed treat implementation as a chance to rethink everything: how data flows, how teams collaborate, how regions interconnect. A lakehouse isn’t just a new place to store data—it’s a new way to think about data.