APIs and data contracts have a lot in common, and APIs were part of the inspiration behind data contracts when I was coming up with the idea a few years back.

Infering rather than defining

18 December 2023·1 min

Data Contracts Data Platform

In yesterday’s note I wrote about the problem with defaults.

Agility vs stability

16 December 2023·1 min

Data Engineering Data Platform Data Contracts

How do you like your data?

Data governance is changing

14 December 2023·1 min

Data Contracts Data Governance Data Mesh

Data governance is changing.

The similarities between software and data

9 December 2023·1 min

Data Contracts APIs

I’m writing this on the train back from Paris, having spent the last few days at the apidays conference, where I gave a talk titled “Data contracts: The API for Data”.

Talking about data contracts on the Catalog & Cocktails podcast

7 December 2023·2 mins

Data Contracts

I had a really great chat last week with Juan and Tim on their Catalog & Cocktails podcast.

The Open Data Contract Standard

5 December 2023·2 mins

Data Contracts

I get asked a lot if there is, or should be, a standard for a data contract.

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