Data By Design: The Art of Building a Data Warehouse

Apr 15, 2026

 

I recently asked a group of 1,900+ data engineers what they found most challenging.

The top 3 results were:

  1. Best practices & conventions
  2. Data modeling
  3. Strategy & how the pieces fit together

 

Truthfully, this was expected.

I hear similar struggles from clients and other engineers all the time.

 

But rather than just leave it there, I decided to organize my thoughts and address this head on.

And the result is a brand new (free) training course I'm calling Data By Design.

 

It packs 10 years of experience and mistakes into 60 minutes so that it's something you can actually finish.

The goal is to share what's worked well for me over the years and give others the confidence to build on their own.

 

So in today's video, I'm sharing the first lesson of that training on YouTube.

And it's all about getting clear on the overall Design.

It's one of the most important things to understand before you begin to build out a data warehouse.

 

If you find this lesson helpful and want to see the rest of the training,  I invite you to join the completely free Modern Data Community and check it out.

You'll not only get this course, but tons of other material.

Plus be able connect with other engineers going through the same thing.

 

Enjoy!

 

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