The gold layer is where cleaned, validated data lives in a medallion architecture, ready for reporting and analysis. In this episode, Brick and Landon break down what actually makes a gold layer good. Landon covers what "good" means in practice: deduplicated data, validated numbers, and a structure business users can trust without checking behind the curtain. They discuss why star schema still holds up as the standard modeling approach, how to handle naming conventions that make sense to ana...