Plan for scale, but start small
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When starting your data contracts implementation, plan for scale, but start small.
Data Contracts
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2024
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.
Data contracts are an agent of change
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Data contracts help bring people together.
How I'd decide to build on an API
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A great analogy for a data contract is an API.
Make your data boring
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In 2012 the authors of the Go programming language published a document that made clear their intention for backwards compatibility:
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