Beyond the Build: Unleashing the Hidden Value in Your Data Platforms

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REA Group builds a streaming data platform on Kafka that enforces self-service onboarding with one- or two-step flows, eliminates approval bottlenecks, and delegates data ownership while providing rollback and recovery tools. Engineers and product teams co-develop pipelines (example: a proven BigQuery-to-Kafka batch ingestion that becomes a streaming pattern), governance uses federation and champions, and success is measured by rising market share, shorter onboarding time, NPS, reduced cognitive load and developer satisfaction.

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1. 0:00Introduction
2. 3:41Tech burnout in data work
3. 8:17Data teams evolution
4. 17:22Platform success factors
5. 26:34Platform builder tips
6. 29:22Closing and celebrating collaborative innovation

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