"In their work at Chartio, Fowler and David get to meet many people who work with data every day. One of their favorite questions to ask them is, "Where did you learn everything you know about data?" Surprisingly, most people tell them they're completely self-taught and have "just figured it out". As a follow-up, they ask what sources they've relied on, and the answers are all over the map. Mostly they'll cite Google, StackOverflow, blogs, and sometimes these books: Agile Data Warehouse Design by Lawrence Corr (2011) or The Data Warehouse Toolkit by Ralph Kimball (originally published in 2004 with a 3rd edition update in 2013). These books were very good for their time, and became classics. But in the timeframe of data, they're ancient. Both were written before Redshift and the gains of the cloud C-Store warehouse. Back then, data was at a totally different scale, had very different costs, was used with totally different products, and was handled by people with very different training--primarily just at enterprise companies. It has gotten to the point where pointing people to these books can do more harm than good. Over the years,Fowler and David have had the incredible opportunity to work with many data teams, architectures, tools, and platforms, and they've built up a body of knowledge around what works--and what doesn't--when it comes to data. They've been sharing this knowledge with customers, and waiting for someone to publish a book on these maturing modern data best practices.They got a bit impatient and earlier this year,theye gathered their notes and combined knowledge and started writing the definitive new data book themselves"--