Bert Corderman

The hidden cost and engineering friction of maintaining fragmented infrastructure for customer-facing features slows your product velocity. As high-frequency data and intelligence become the core of the user experience, the traditional strategy of managing siloed operational and analytical stacks has shifted from a technical inconvenience to a strategic liability. For organizations that must ship faster while controlling infrastructure overhead, the path forward is a fundamental move toward consolidation. This tech industry session moves past the theory to provide a proven blueprint for architecting experiences built directly on a unified foundation. We will explore the shift from “integrated” to “built-on” and detail how to consolidate specialized databases, eliminate brittle data pipelines and use the lakehouse and Lakebase architectures to power user experiences at a fraction of the traditional engineering cost.