2024
Your data contract tooling should be designed for data producers.
While a lot of people associate data contracts with data quality (and I did call my book Driving Data Quality with Data Contracts!
When building a (data) platform you end up thinking a lot about the abstractions you are providing, and the trade-offs they cause.
What key business processes depend on your data?
When building a data platform I’m often thinking about how to reduce friction for my users.
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.
How many alerts do you get every day?
Data is at the heart of every meaningful service, and it’s the effective use of that data which builds a product, and a business.
David Jayatillake published an interesting post recently titled “We don’t need data contracts”.
If you want your users to use the tools you are building or onboarding, it’s important to implement them exactly where they expect them to be.