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Object Storage + WAL: Lakebase Postgres for the agentic era

Agents that interact with a traditional OLTP database often create bottlenecks at the storage layer. New deployments...

Agents that interact with a traditional OLTP database often create bottlenecks at the storage layer. New deployments...

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  • Topic: Datos y Analítica — Gobierno del dato, calidad, analítica y productos de datos.
  • Source: Databricks
  • Published: 27/08/2026

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Why it matters

What gives data value is not having it, it is somebody changing a decision because of it. It sounds obvious and it is the test most projects fail: the report gets built, gets published, nobody changes anything, and six months later the project is recorded as a success because it shipped on time.

My criterion is that data only helps if it arrives in time for the decision it is meant to support. A perfect report that lands on the eighth for a decision taken on the third is a useless report, however correct it is. Timeliness beats precision more often than people admit.

What usually goes wrong

What I see fail most is dashboard maintenance. It gets built carefully, used for three months, and then a business rule changes that nobody told the data team about. The number still comes out, it no longer means the same thing, and decisions keep being made on data that became false.

What to watch

  • Which concrete decision changes because of this and who makes it: without that, it is one more dashboard.
  • Whether definitions are agreed across areas or each one brings its own to the meeting.
  • Where the data comes from and what happens when the source system changes or fails.

How I read this entry

What I would ask for is a business owner for each critical indicator, by name. Not an area: a person. Data without an owner degrades on its own, and when somebody asks why the number changed, there is nobody to ask.

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