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- The architecture involves hybrid models, balancing centralized platforms with vertical-specific data engineering efforts tailored for marketing, supply chain, or product teams.
Security and privacy are strategic priorities, especially for B2C companies operating in regulated regions (e.g., GDPR in Europe or CCPA in California). Automated processes and toolchains are developed to ensure compliance with privacy obligations, such as obfuscating PII without manual intervention.
Practical Example: The Data Journey of an E-commerce Startup
To ground these concepts, the speaker shares their experience at an e-commerce company evolving from a simple MySQL repository to a sophisticated data platform: