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Nick E.'s avatar

Excellent explanation and the visuals for each were interesting!

Hardy's avatar

Wow great article 👏

David McCandless's avatar

I think one other advantage that decentralized (and to a slightly lesser extent federated) models have over centralization is propensity to innovate. Centralized (and to a degree federated) models can lead to group think and forgetting to think outside the box.

Great article, Ben.

Aubert's avatar

which tools did you use to draw Federated Data Teams grah and Decentralized Data Teams graph? Please could you share the link ? it's very interresting.

David McCandless's avatar

Pretty sure that's Excalidraw, Aubert.

SeattleDataGuy's avatar

Yup it is! Thank you David!