This concise yet comprehensive guide explains how to adopt a data lakehouse architecture to implement modern data platforms. It reviews the design considerations, challenges, and best practices for implementing a lakehouse and provides key insights into the ways that using a lakehouse can impact your data platform, from managing structured and unstructured data and supporting BI and AI/ML use cases to enabling more rigorous data governance and security measures. Practical Lakehouse Architecture shows you how to:Understand key lakehouse concepts and features like transaction support, time travel, and schema evolutionUnderstand the differences between traditional and lakehouse data architecturesDifferentiate between various file formats and table formatsDesign lakehouse architecture layers for storage, compute, metadata management, and data consumptionImplement data governance and data security within the platformEvaluate technologies and decide on the best technology stack to implement the lakehouse for your use caseMake critical design decisions and address practical challenges to build a future-ready data platformStart your lakehouse implementation journey and migrate data from existing systems to the lakehouse