Start with the problem
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What is the problem you’re trying to solve with data contracts?
Data Contracts
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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.
Data contracts cannot assign ownership
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I was giving a talk a few weeks ago on data contracts, and through it one audience member seemed particularly engaged, nodding along throughout.
A business case that improves data quality
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Many data engineering teams spend a lot of their time struggling to deal with upstream data.
You don't need a mandate
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Following on from yesterday’s note on the API Mandate and data contracts, I wan’t to be clear you don’t need to mandate data contracts to get adoption.
Data contracts and the API mandate
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In 2002 Jeff Bezos issued the now infamous API Mandate which stated the following:
Workflows must have a benefit
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Every workflow and process you have has a cost, including the following:
Validating data contracts downstream
I wrote yesterday how it’s best to validate as early as possible.
Validate as early as possible
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It’s always best to do your data validation as early as possible as that:
Don't let table models become an API
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As a software engineer, we would never make our database directly available to consumers.
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