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To build reliable data products we need a data platform that provides us capabilities to do so.
I wrote yesterday about how important a data catalog becomes when you move to a decentralised and autonomous data architecture built on data contracts.
When you’ve successfully built an autonomous, contract-driven data platform, you’ll find the number of data contracts explode.
One of the many benefits of a contract-based data platform is that it ensures consistency over how data is created, managed, and consumed across your organisation.
Platforms in general, and data platforms in particular, can be a powerful enabler for an organisation.
Once you have a data contract defined you can represent it in as many different ways as you want.
Data contracts can be used to implement a data mesh.
People new to data contracts often ask “how is that different to a schema?
Data is created by various systems and applications owned by various teams.
When delivering on a large project (data contracts, data mesh, or any large project) you need to realise value early and often.