https://rjrowland.com/tags/data-modeling/Recent content in Data-Modeling on rjrowlandHugoen-usWed, 22 Jul 2026 09:00:00 -0500https://rjrowland.com/posts/engineering-practices-data-domain/Wed, 22 Jul 2026 09:00:00 -0500https://rjrowland.com/posts/engineering-practices-data-domain/<p>The data model is the most consequential decision in a system, and teams make it too casually. Code gets rewritten constantly. Schemas outlast teams. A wrong column name costs you a migration. A missing foreign key costs you a redesign. A misunderstood entity relationship can invalidate months of work. Get the model right before any code exists, because that&rsquo;s the cheapest point at which you&rsquo;ll ever get to fix it.</p>