Data Contracts

I had a really great chat last week with Juan and Tim on their Catalog & Cocktails podcast. They were both so interested in the topic and asked really great questions, and I think we did their “no BS” tagline justice!

I get asked a lot if there is, or should be, a standard for a data contract. My answer has always been that a successful standard could be valuable and potentially unlock a lot of innovation.

Yali Sassoon wrote a great article about What is, and what isn’t, a data contract. It’s quite timely as data contracts is becoming one of those terms that can mean whatever you want it to mean, like data governance or (possibly) data mesh.

I’m so proud to announce that my book on data contracts is out now! Available wherever you buy your books, including Amazon, Packt, ebooks.com, Kobo and through the O’Reilly learning platform.

With the release of my book on data contracts, I wanted to share why I agreed to write this book, and what it means to me personally.

What do software engineers think about data contracts? 🤔

When talking about data contracts, we naturally focus on the benefits for our data teams, and how by improving the reliability and quality of our data we can drive significant business value from the data.

Really enjoyed talking about how we’re driving ML data quality with Data Contracts at a recent MLOps Community meetup!

Originally published on the GoCardless Tech blog.

At GoCardless, we’re using Data Contracts to improve data quality and reliability. We’ve been on this journey for nearly a year now, and while we have some learnings we’re making great progress.

Really enjoyed chatting to Kyle of Bigeye about Data Contracts, FinTech, privacy regulation and more!

Check it out on YouTube and let us know what you think :)

A few weeks back I spoke to the team at Monte Carlo about our experiences implementing Data Contracts at GoCardless and our key learnings so far.