Hi Bryan, Thanks for the applaud.

My view is that the Landing Zone is usually not considered part of the Medallion Architecture itself, but it is still one of the most important layers in a data lake. It's the first point of contact for data coming from source systems—whether that's files, databases, APIs, or streaming sources.

In most implementations, the Landing Zone is primarily file-based and acts as the raw ingestion layer. Bronze then becomes the first managed data layer where those files are ingested into tables and made available for downstream processing. Let me know if you have specific question