Co-Founder & CTO of Datametica Solutions, leading the company’s long-term technology vision and ensuring alignment with business strategy.

With the advantages of scalability, enhanced performance and cost-effectiveness, cloud platforms have evolved as a substitute for legacy data warehouses and data lakes. Data warehouse modernization is often the top priority for businesses in present times.

According to Gartner, by 2025, 95% of digital workloads will be hosted in the cloud, which means almost all of us are busy building our cloud migration strategy. However, when developing a seamless cloud migration strategy, people often overlook ETL migration or treat it as an afterthought. This is where you unintentionally invite problems with performance and costs. If you fail to modernize your ETL processes, your company’s analytical data platform could be doomed.

At last, we’re on the cusp of a passwordless era. Replacing passwords with passkeys promises to reduce frustration while making us safer.

However, through my experience working with businesses and end users, I’ve found widespread misunderstandings around passwordless technologies. Many don’t understand what passwordless technology is or how it works, and some mistakenly think that more onerous login processes mean it’s more secure. Here’s an update on where we stand and what we need to take passwordless technology mainstream.

Passwords may be the default, but they’re not our best option.