Architecture position pack for enterprise data platforms: strategy, blueprints, and decision frameworks for data architects and technology leaders. 37 pages arguing one position, governed coexistence: explicit contracts between systems of record, insight, and action.
Live at sunilprakash.com/enterprise-data-architecture. Built with Astro; content lives in docs/ as plain markdown.
- Business and technology leaders who need to understand where enterprise data platforms end and operational platforms begin
- Data architects and platform engineers who need blueprints, decision frameworks, and anti-patterns to make and defend architecture decisions
| Section | What It Covers |
|---|---|
| Position | What the EDP is and is not, anti-patterns, the ODS confusion, the 2026 landscape, convergence and its exceptions |
| Blueprints | Seven-layer target state (GCP/Azure/AWS), capabilities, control plane, AI/LLM supply chains, agent access, serving layer |
| Decisions | Workload routing, capability maps, data mesh, maturity, vendor evaluation |
| Patterns | Data contracts (ODCS), cost architecture, open table formats and catalogs |
| Compliance | BCBS 239, DORA, HIPAA, Solvency II, IFRS 17, EU AI Act |
| Operations | Operating model, reliability, SLOs, incident discipline |
| Evidence | Composite case studies, evidence tables, worked ADRs, target metrics, review checklists |
| Glossary | Precise definitions for 20 commonly confused terms |
Live at sunilprakash.com/enterprise-data-architecture.
Cite as: Prakash, Sunil. Enterprise Data Architecture: A Position Pack for Governed Coexistence. 2026.
| Repo | What It Is |
|---|---|
| reference-data-platform-gcp | Production-grade EDP implementation on GCP (Data Vault 2.0, dbt, BigQuery, Terraform) |
| dbt-data-vault-starter | Opinionated dbt project template for Data Vault 2.0 on BigQuery |
This repo is the strategy layer. The repos above are the implementation layer.
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