Your Data, Others’ Rules It’s time to take back control of your data and get something out of it. We live in a world where we as individuals and enterprises hand over all of our data and information to vendors that we pay to lock us in to their services. As software engineers, we’re left with figuring out how to work around brittle solutions (ours and our vendors’) and spend most of our time building architecture like a house of cards and supporting it when it falls.