Solving a small problem with data contracts
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You don’t need to run a big transformation project to start your adoption of data contracts.
Data Contracts
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Past performance is no guarantee of future performance
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If I want to use a dataset to build a critical data application, I need to make a decision on whether it meets my requirements.
Implementing change management with data contracts
This is part 5 and the final part in my Data Reliability series.
What types of companies adopt data contracts?
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What types of companies adopt data contracts?
Data contracts at Nandos
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Ben Watson at Nandos, a South African restaurant chain operating in 30 countries, has a great write up on their modern data platform with data mesh and data contracts.
Undisciplined use of Kafka leads to poor quality data
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I was at Confluent’s Data In Motion event in London yesterday and this quote by Tim Berglund in they keynote caught my attention:
Start with your critical data. Aim for all your data
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When you start your adoption of data contracts, you want to start with the most critical datasets, because this is where you can add the most value.
Automated schema migrations
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When a schema change is made in a data contract you might want to think about how you can automate the deployment of that and migration to it, without data loss or effort from the consumers.
Start with the problem
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What is the problem you’re trying to solve with data contracts?
The data contract captures contextual information
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The problem with using data isn’t usually finding it - data catalogs can surface that data.
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