The document discusses the different stages in a data lifecycle - transient, short to medium term, analytics, and archival. It outlines example workloads that fall into each stage. The key technologies that can be used at each stage are also presented, including Redis, MongoDB, Cassandra and Hadoop. The document provides guidance on how to fit the different technologies together based on requirements, available talent, and licensing. It emphasizes allowing experts to manage the technologies while focusing on building application features.