3 steps to getting started with data contracts
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Getting started with data contracts doesn’t have to be complex.
Data Contracts
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An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure
An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.
Enforce standardisation with data contracts
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Data is published by many different systems, and as the number of systems increase it’s likely your organisations data will become less standardised over time, with different identifiers, different semantics, and so on.
Celebrating small wins
It’s important to celebrate small wins.
Removing the tight coupling caused by change data capture
Many data platforms start with a change data capture (CDC) service to extract data from an organisations transactional databases — the source of truth for their most valuable data.
Data contracts on streaming data
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Data contracts are typically used to apply change management to data in tables, in a data warehouse.
Data contracts encourage domain ownership
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Implementing data contracts at the platform layer gives it the capabilities needed to enable domain ownership.
Data Contracts are about setting expectations
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Data Contracts are about setting expectations, including:
Apply discipline to your data production
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Software engineers use processes and tooling to instil discipline into the creation of software.
2 parts to implementing data contracts
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There are 2 parts to implementing data contracts.
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