2024
On the panel with STRM yesterday Avi asked the question:
You can’t use data contracts - or anything - to try to gain control over something owned by someone else.
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.
I wrote earlier this month that data contracts shouldn’t focus on enforcement.
Next Thursday I’ll be discussing data contracts and how they pave the way for effective enforcement on a webinar hosted by STRM.
The data contract must be owned by the data producer.
A few months back Whatnot published a great post on how they are using data contracts.
In a response to my LinkedIn post on how every data transform is technical debt, Tim Hiebenthal commented:
Data contracts can be applied in various places, but they’re most useful at the boundaries of ownership.
It’s easy to see data contracts as something to enforce on your data producers.