Designing the AI-Driven Data Foundations; Architecture, Principles, and Practice (2026)

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Build AI-powered data platforms that unify analytics and intelligence The playbook for data and AI architecture has been rewritten. This is the guide to what comes next. For decades, data architectures were optimized for a predictable set of workloads. AI changes every layer of the stack where autonomous agents, not just humans, consume data. The architectures that worked for traditional analytics cannot meet these demands. Designing the AI-Driven Data Foundations is a comprehensive guide to architecting platforms for this new reality. Drawing on his experience as principal analyst at SanjMo and former VP of Research at Gartner, where he advised thousands of enterprises on data strategy, renowned analyst Sanjeev Mohan delivers vendor-neutral guidance for navigating a landscape where yesterday's best practices no longer apply. The book systematically unpacks each layer of contemporary data stacks, from operational and analytical data