# Portable data lake: A development environment for data lakes

DevFeed: [Portable data lake: A development environment for data lakes](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/portable-data-lake-a-development-environment-for-data-lakes-80370.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://dlthub.com/blog/portable-data-lake>)

Author: Adrian Brudaru

Published: 2024-10-03T00:00:00Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [DLT Hub](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/dlt-hub.md>)

Topics: [data lake](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/data-lake.md>), [Data Management](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/data-management.md>), [Developer experience](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/developer-experience.md>), [deltalake](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/deltalake.md>), [reusable code](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/reusable-code.md>)

Tags: [access-controls](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/access-controls.md>), [auditing](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/auditing.md>), [ci-cd](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ci-cd.md>), [data-lake](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/data-lake.md>), [data-movement](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/data-movement.md>), [data-platform](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/data-platform.md>), [product](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/product.md>)

## AI overview

The article proposes a portable data lake as a governed, collaborative data development environment that can run locally or online. It describes combining a local cache and lake engine with SQL and Python access, open standards, semantic data contracts, access controls, and a path from local prototyping to production. It also presents dltHub tools and integrations as ways to support that approach.

## Source excerpt

What if we had a portable data lake?