If data is part of engineering, do we need data contracts?
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David Jayatillake published an interesting post recently titled “We don’t need data contracts”.
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Bringing producers and consumers together with data contracts
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The definition and evolution of the data contract should be a collaboration between the data producers and the data consumers.
A multi-million dollar data quality issue
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Someone reached out to me and asked me to present on data contracts to their organisation after they had a data quality issue that directly resulted in multi-million dollars of lost revenue.
Does data contracts require support from the top?
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It can be tempting to view data contracts as a large program that requires support from the top of the organisation to be successful.
The contract-based data platform at MatHem
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Robert Sahlin wrote a nice post on the data platform at MatHem, a Swedish retailer.
Data contracts vs schemas
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On the panel with STRM yesterday Avi asked the question:
Control and ownership
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You can’t use data contracts - or anything - to try to gain control over something owned by someone else.
A contract-based data platform - new post on Medium
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Over on Medium I’ve published a post about a contract-based data platform, which is an updated version of my post to this newsletter back in December.
What happens when a data contract is breached?
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I wrote earlier this month that data contracts shouldn’t focus on enforcement.
Data contracts-driven tooling, and a webinar with STRM
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Next Thursday I’ll be discussing data contracts and how they pave the way for effective enforcement on a webinar hosted by STRM.
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