We are often told of the importance of exercise to overall health. Stretching, cardio and strengthening exercises each contributes to maintaining a fit physique.
In the context of healthy data, we also need a range of activities to provide the right data to the right place at the right time – both for analytical consumption and any other kind of processing. We aim to thoughtfully balance the accumulation of new data with the reduction in data through archiving or deletion. Decomposing this a little further, we can think about four kinds of exercise:
