S1 E11 | The Art of the Data Platform: Reducing Cognitive Load and Driving Adoption with Jelle De Vleminck
Jul 17, 2025
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Kris Peeters & Jelle De Vleminck - The Data Playbook Podcast
Lessons, mistakes & trends in building data platforms devs love, insights from Jelle De Vleminck for data leaders.
🎙 In this episode of The Data Playbook, we explore how to build data platforms that actually help people get things done beyond just picking the right tools.
Host Kris Peeters is joined by Jelle De Vleminck, consultant at Dataminded, to explore the real-world challenges of platform adoption, developer experience, and growing data ecosystems. With hands-on insights from leading client projects, Jelle shares how to reduce cognitive load, avoid common pitfalls, and build platforms people actually want to use.
💡 Designed for data platform engineers, architects, and data leaders, this episode dives into:
Why giving teams an AWS account is not a platform
What to automate and what to leave to the developer
How to measure and drive platform adoption
5 mistakes in platform design (like the Grim Wrapper)
How data contracts and products help scale cleanly
When to prioritize developer enablement over control
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