I mean, I have actually used a data lake and it worked pretty well for its intended purpose. Fuck having to email 5 different people (and have a 50 minute meeti

I mean, I have actually used a data lake and it worked pretty well for its intended purpose. Fuck having to email 5 different people (and have a 50 minute meeting) and wait 3 days (or 3 weeks) for them all to send me fucked up CSVs and Zip files full of XML and whatever the hell else, with no clear provenance and absolutely no documentation.