How I'd decide to build on an API
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A great analogy for a data contract is an API.
Data Contracts
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2024
Make your data boring
·3 mins
In 2012 the authors of the Go programming language published a document that made clear their intention for backwards compatibility:
Are data contracts only for tabular data?
·1 min
It’s a misconception that data contracts are just for tabular data.
Data contracts and organisation structure
·1 min
What’s the right organisational structure for a successful data contracts implementation?
Change management can't be left to humans
A question I received on a LinkedIn post about change management with data contracts asked (lightly edited for clarity):
Tools over rules for data governance
·1 min
Data governance initiatives often deliver a set of rules for people to follow when they create and manage data.
Flexible data contracts
·2 mins
When it comes to data contracts I’m always talking about well structured data.
Data contracts and dbt
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I was asked on LinkedIn how I might approach data contracts with dbt.
Who is the data catalog for?
·2 mins
Many organisations have a data catalog as a part of their data stack.
The point of data mesh
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The whole point of data mesh is to make data in an organisation more accessible.