**Problem statement:**
how to align your data of source applications with your data analytics platform/lakehouse
**Options:**
![[development-flow-alignment.svg]]
| **Option 1** | **Option 2** |
| ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| 🟩 kiss, keep it simple<br><br>🟩 cost ingestion only 1x<br><br>🟩 data modelling is much easier on prod data | 🟩 dev can see impact of changes made in Dev or QA and can be tested before going to prod |
| 🔻no awareness of dev & QA, <br>-> can be mitigated by receiving planned release notes from source applications | 🔻3 x ingestion cost (dev,qa,prod)<br>🔻data Modelling on Dev data is hard, missing data etc.<br>🔻not all Source applications have the same development flow (dev,qa,prod) |
**Conclusion:** option 1 is most desirable