The Data Playbook Podcast

What do you do when GDPR forces your cloud project to stop—and years later, you need to go back? In this episode, Niels Melotte , Data Engineer at Dataminded, unpacks the journey of a government agency that migrated from the cloud to on-prem and then back to the cloud again. And here’s the kicker: the Big Bang migration only took 14 hours. No downtime. No data loss. No angry users. 🔍 In this epis...

In this episode of The Data Playbook , we dive deep into a critical, often-overlooked question: What does it mean to build sustainable data products? And no, we’re not just talking ESG dashboards or carbon reporting. 🎙️ Host Kris Peeters is joined by Geert Verstraeten, a seasoned data scientist, founder of Python Predictions, and now a Co-Lead at The Data Forest —a consultancy that puts purpose an...

What Not to Build with AI: Avoiding the New Technical Debt in Data-Driven Organizations In this episode of The Data Playbook , we explore a crucial and often overlooked question in the age of generative AI: not what to build—but what not to build. Host Kris Peeters (CEO of Dataminded) is joined by seasoned data leaders Pascal Brokmeier (Head of Engineering at Every Cure) and Tim Schröder (AI &...

What does it really take to build a modern data architecture from the ground up? In our very first episode of The Data Playbook , host Kris Peeters , founder and CEO of Dataminded, sits down with Thorsten Foltz , seasoned data architect and engineer, to unpack what works (and what doesn’t) when designing scalable, future-proof data platforms. With a focus on real-world tradeoffs, this episode expl...