Start here

Read these four pages in order. They need no background.

1. What is the Data Lake?: the purpose, the people who use it, what it does and does not do.
2. Architecture: every part, the four server roles, and the journey of one file.
3. Data model and rules: vendors, projects, folders, bronze/silver/gold, names, statuses.
4. Glossary: every term in one list.

Then pick what you need:

I want to…	Go to
Send files as a vendor	Upload files or Push API
Query data as an analyst	SQL workspace, Views and APIs, Notebooks
Run the platform as an admin	Admin guide
Understand the code we wrote	Applications
Know what is installed on a server	Server apps, one by one
Build or repair a server	Scripts and Operations