Data contracts implement a data mesh
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Data contracts can be used to implement a data mesh.
Data Contracts
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What makes data contracts more than a schema?
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People new to data contracts often ask “how is that different to a schema?
Limit data divergence
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Data is created by various systems and applications owned by various teams.
Vertical slicing
When delivering on a large project (data contracts, data mesh, or any large project) you need to realise value early and often.
3 steps to getting started with data contracts
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Getting started with data contracts doesn’t have to be complex.
An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure
An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.
Enforce standardisation with data contracts
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Data is published by many different systems, and as the number of systems increase it’s likely your organisations data will become less standardised over time, with different identifiers, different semantics, and so on.
Celebrating small wins
It’s important to celebrate small wins.
Removing the tight coupling caused by change data capture
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 on streaming data
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Data contracts are typically used to apply change management to data in tables, in a data warehouse.
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