Reversing Conway's Law
Yesterday I wrote about Conway’s law and the challenges it causes in organisations where data teams are placed in a separate part of the organisation to where the data is generated.
Data Contracts
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2024
Make the data contract useful
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Unless the data contract is being used, no one is going to put effort into creating or maintaining it.
Data teams evolve to focus on dependability
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Yesterday I wrote how data teams often start with accessibility, which helps you get started, but leads to a number of problems:
More on the patterns of data contracts
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I wrote yesterday about the patterns of data contracts, giving a small example.
The patterns of data contracts
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Data contracts is really a set of patterns you can apply to your organisation, once you have data contracts defined and containing sufficient information to drive those patterns.
Prevent information drift by generating from code
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JSON Schema is the most widely adopted representation of JSON APIs.
Data contracts as part of the workflow
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Data contracts, like any documentation or specification, will only be kept updated if they are part of the workflow.
Data contracts for automation
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One of the benefits of data contracts is the amount of automation they unlock.
Software Engineers invest heavily in preventing incidents. Data teams should too
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Software engineers invest significantly to prevent bugs being deployed to production environments using techniques and tools such as:
Plan for scale, but start small
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When starting your data contracts implementation, plan for scale, but start small.
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