The right level of abstraction
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When building a (data) platform you end up thinking a lot about the abstractions you are providing, and the trade-offs they cause.
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What key business processes depend on your data?
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What key business processes depend on your data?
Demystifying Data Contracts
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On the latest episode of the Data & AI podcast I joined Deepak and Dan as we demystified data contracts.
When to add friction
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When building a data platform I’m often thinking about how to reduce friction for my users.
CDC creates tight coupling
Many data platforms start with a change data capture (CDC) service to extract data from an organisations transactional databases - the source of truth for their most valuable data.
Data contracts and data mesh
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There is strong alignment between the goals of data mesh and data contracts.
What is a data contract?
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I enjoyed this post by Ryan Collingwood on what the 🤬 is a Data Contract?
Migrating to a new data contract version
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Data evolves over time, and as such a data contract needs to support that.
Data contracts enable data products
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While data products are for people, they still require an interface that allows people to access them - usually through a system such as a database, an analytics tool, a notebook, and so on.
A Data Platform is not just for analytics
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Data is at the heart of every meaningful service, and it’s the effective use of that data which builds a product, and a business.
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