The Medallion Data Architecture (Pros & Cons)
Nov 20, 2025A common approach to building a data pipeline is to follow what's known as a Medallion Architecture.
At a high level, this gives you 3 clear layers for which to move your data along in the pipeline.
Bronze - Silver - Gold.
This might seem pretty straightforward when I just explain it like that.
But a lot of teams I speak to actually struggle to implement this correctly.
For example, they're not sure if they're building things in the right layers.
Or the naming gets thrown off to the point where it actually ends up becoming more complicated than it needs to be.
So in this video we'll talk a little bit more about this concept.
We'll cover:
- What the Medallion Architecture is
- Where it fits in the grand scheme of what we do as data people
- A slightly alternative approach you could take
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