A contract-driven data catalog
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I wrote yesterday about how important a data catalog becomes when you move to a decentralised and autonomous data architecture built on data contracts.
Data Contracts
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Discovering data contracts
When you’ve successfully built an autonomous, contract-driven data platform, you’ll find the number of data contracts explode.
Consistent data across your organisation
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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.
The power of data platforms
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Platforms in general, and data platforms in particular, can be a powerful enabler for an organisation.
One definition, many representations
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Once you have a data contract defined you can represent it in as many different ways as you want.
Data contracts implement a data mesh
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Data contracts can be used to implement a data mesh.
What makes data contracts more than a schema?
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People new to data contracts often ask “how is that different to a schema?
Limit data divergence
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Data is created by various systems and applications owned by various teams.
Vertical slicing
When delivering on a large project (data contracts, data mesh, or any large project) you need to realise value early and often.
3 steps to getting started with data contracts
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Getting started with data contracts doesn’t have to be complex.
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