Apps Break Data

How information systems are built or acquired puts information, which is what they should be about, in a secondary place. Our language adapted accordingly, and we no longer talk about information systems but applications. Applications evolved in a way to break data into diverse fragments, tightly coupled with applications and expensive to integrate. The result is technical debt, which is re-paid by taking even bigger "loans", resulting in an ever-increasing technical debt. Software engineering and procurement practices work in sync with market forces to maintain this trend. This talk demonstrates how natural this situation is. The question is: can something be done to reverse the trend?

30. INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION -

35. See: Decoupling

42. Data-centric principles
Data is self-describing and does not rely on an
application for interpretation and meaning.
Data is expressed in open, non-proprietary formats.
Applications are allowed to visit the data, perform their
magic and express the results of their process back into
the data layer.
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