19 JAN 2026 · 6 min read
What 13 Years in Data Taught Me About Hype Cycles
Big data, IoT, digital twins, data lakes, data mesh, the modern data stack, generative AI, agents. Thirteen years and roughly a dozen revolutions in — here's the pattern under all of them, and how I've learned to read a hype cycle from the inside.
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