I flat out disagree with the premise of that article. I think it is written from the perspective of an engineer that is primarily in the operational domain and

I flat out disagree with the premise of that article. I think it is written from the perspective of an engineer that is primarily in the operational domain and only see the value of analytics domain as a supplier of data to the operational side. The the truth is there are many many uses of data that isn’t transactional/operational and frankly have no need to be real time at all. So all the building and maintaining of graph network to deliver near real time data is just an unnecessarily over-engineered and unnecessary and costly complexity. If your operational use cases are indeed near real time, please find some optimal way to do that. But don’t you dare assume many other data use cases need that