The Real Goal of a Data Platform Migration Is Not New Technology
Data platform migrations are often presented as technology upgrades.
A company moves from an older warehouse to a lakehouse (such as Snowflake, Databricks, or BigQuery). Teams replace legacy pipelines with distributed processing. Storage and compute are separated. New orchestration, governance, and observability layers are introduced.
These changes may be technically important, but they are not the real reason to migrate.
The real goal is to build a platform that can process more data at a lower cost without becoming harder to operate.
A successful migration should reduce infrastructure waste, simplify data movement, improve reliability, and help teams make decisions faster. If the new platform is more modern but significantly more expensive, the migration has only replaced one problem with another.
Why Data Platforms Become Cost Sinkholes
Most data platforms do not become expensive because of one major architectural mistake.
Cost usually grows through hundreds of small decisions.
- An engineer spins...
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