apache parquet

From Spreadsheets to Snowflake: Modern Data Foundations for MROs

by michael | Dec 9, 2025 | Blog

The Problem: Legacy MRO Data Can’t Keep Up Most MRO IT leaders already know the truth: your data is working against you. Spreadsheet sprawl that hides critical operational and financial insights ERP customizations from the 90s and early 2000s that nobody wants to...

Data Lake Ingestion Best Practices (with Alice)

by michael | Oct 8, 2025 | Blog

TL;DR: Organize storage by domain, default to yyyy/mm/dd partitioning (ingest_date in bronze, event_date in silver), prefer Parquet for analytics and CSV only for interchange, enable lifecycle rules + versioning on day one, orchestrate with the Alice scheduler...