I recently had the opportunity to visit our software development partners in India. Gathi Analytics — the company who has helped us create our Modern Data Platform and given us some powerful tools and resources to store, model and present our large amounts of data — sponsored the trip to help extend the relationship between our companies and allow our teams to get better acquainted.

A little background:

I am a software engineering manager that leads the development team for an international retail company. Our IT department spans a few technology groups that work with various parts of the business. As these teams began to grow I needed a way to document the technology choices we have made.

Why we needed this:

It was becoming hard for me to remember everything in my head. A growing organization meant that there were more people working with more technologies. I needed to understand their purpose and determine if it fit well within the big picture.