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
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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.
New data contracts workshops announced
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The next two instalments of my data contracts workshop, in partnership with ​Soda​, have been announced.
Accountable vs responsible
The quality of a decision increases directly proportional to the degree to which the person is responsible.
Data contracts require a change of mindset
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I wrote yesterday how using data contracts allows you to:
Data contracts are simple, but powerful
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Data contracts are a simple idea.
Source systems must provide applicable data
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One of our aims with data contracts was to move away from our existing Change Data Capture (CDC) architecture, where the entire database is synced to the data warehouse with exactly the same structure.
The goal has always been accessible data
The goal of every data architecture has always been to provide accessible data to the organisation.
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