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Throughout his career, Rick van der Lans has authored hundreds of insightful articles and blog posts for various newspapers, magazines, and industry-leading websites. His writing spans both technical and strategic topics, offering valuable perspectives for professionals across the data and analytics landscape. In addition to his editorial contributions, he has written numerous educational and thought-provoking white papers for a diverse range of technology vendors. These papers are widely recognized for their ability to translate complex technical concepts into accessible, actionable insights for decision-makers, practitioners, and IT leaders alike. Here are links to some recent publications:

The Multi-Hop Data Architecture Addiction	Blog
APIs Constrain Organizations to Expoit Their Data	Blog
MetaData, the Neglected Stepchild of IT	Blog
Modular Data Platforms for Centralized and Decentralized, Cloud-Based Data Architectures	Whitepaper
The Data Lakehouse: Blending Data Warehouses and Data Lakes	Blog
Use the Cloud More Creatively	Blog
Logical Data Fabric to the Rescue: Integrating Data Warehouses, Data Lakes, and Data Hub	Whitepaper
Sustainable Data Architectures Through Data Architecture Automation	Blog
Do Unified Databases Make Polyglot Persistence Irrelevant?	Blog
SingleStore: Simplifying Data Architectures with a Unified Database	Whitepaper
From Data Warehouse Automation to Data Architecture Automation	Blog
Data Minimization as Design Guideline for New Data Architectures	Blog
Data Fabrics Need to Coexist with data Warehouses and Other Database-Centric Solutions	Blog
A Decentralized Master Data Solution using Data Virtualization	Blog
Streamlining External Data Acess to Enrich Analytics	Blog
The Data Mesh, the New Kid on the Data Architecture Block	Blog
Developing a Data Fabric	Blog
Making Big Data Easy with Data Virtualization	Blog
Data Herding Is Not Data Integration!	Blog
Benefits of Data Virtualization to Data Scientists	Blog
Raising the Bar for Data Virtualization	Whitepaper
Becoming a Data-driven Organization Requires a Cultural Change	Blog
Cohelion, an All-in-one Data Warehouse Factory	Blog
How Do You Design New Data Architectures	Blog
Eight Data Virtualization Features to Help an Organization Become Data-Driven	Blog
New Data Architectures are too Data-Store-Centric	Blog
Data Virtualization and SnowflakeDB: A Powerful Combination	Blog
Applications Come and Go, Data Stays	Blog
Data Modeling Considered Harmful for Big Data	Blog
Business Benefits of Data Virtualization	Whitepaper
Simplifying Big Data Projects with Data Virtualization	Blog
Easy Database Migration with Data Virtualization	Blog
Unifying Data Delivery Systems Through Data Virtualization	Whitepaper
Part 6: A Unified Data Delivery Platform - A Summary	Blog
Part 6: A Unified Data Delivery Platform – a Summary	Blog
Part 5: Requirements for a Unified Data Delivery Platform	Blog
Part 4: Big Data is Not the Biggest Change in IT	Blog
Part 3: How Siloed Data Delivery Systems Were Born	Blog
Part 2: Key Benefits of a Unified Data Delivery Platform	Blog
Part 1: Drowning in Data Delivery Systems	Blog
Simplifying Big Data Integration with Data Virtualization	Blog
Do Data Scientists Really Ask for Physical Data Lakes	Blog
Do We Really Deploy ETL in Our Data Warehouse Architectures?	Blog
Challenges for Developing Data Lakes	Blog
Data Vault and Data Virtualization: Double Agility	Whitepaper

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