2024
Software engineers often have many capabilities at the platform layer that helps them deploy changes with confidence, including:
Are the consumers of your data platform active?
Think of the processes you have in place.
“You broke our data, so your PRs now need our signoff.
All abstractions leak some details of the complexities it is trying to hide.
Your data platform shouldn’t presuppose what can be built upon them.
Many of us engineers enjoy building things.
There will be times when you look at the data platform you’ve got and think how great it would be to rip it out and start again.
An effective data platform provides the right tooling and abstractions that allow its users to get things done without the need for constant support from your team.
Data contracts are great for declaratively describing the data and the infrastructure you need to make that data available to others and manage it in line with your governance requirements.