Control vs Consequences
·3 mins
Taking control makes you a bottleneck. Are the consequences worth the cost?
Data Platform
2025
Keeping data contracts simple
·3 mins
Add more capabilities to your data contracts while keeping them simple for your users.
Source-aligned data products, or output ports on the source?
·4 mins
Do source-aligned data products solve the problem, or do we instead need a more suitable output port on the source system.
Separating the contract UI from the platform
·4 mins
Separating the contract UI from the platform allows you to build the platform and its tools once, while also meeting users where they are.
Local data value in large organisations
·4 mins
Happy Friday!
Today I write about how we maintain the ability to provide local value through data in large organisations.
Federated computational governance with data contracts
·5 mins
Hey, hope you’ve had a good start to June! I’m writing to you from Antwerp, Belgium, where I’m attending the inaugural Data Mesh Live conference. Looking forward to a great day of learning and meeting before my talk later.
Driving self-serve data platforms with data contracts
·5 mins
Hey friends! Welcome to another edition of my newsletter.
I’ve actually been on holiday all week with the family, but if my automation is set up correctly this will be dropping in your inbox on a Friday as usual!
Investing in decentralisation
·5 mins
Hey! Thanks for opening another edition of my newsletter. This week I talk about the investment you need to make when decentralising.
Shifting Left: How Data Contracts Underpin People, Processes, and Technology
·4 mins
Hey, hope you had a good week!
This week I’ve published an in-depth article on shifting left, which is previewed below and available in full on the Confluent blog, plus links on docs-as-code, a new release of ODCS, and data exploration with DuckDB and Rill.
The many applications of data contracts
·3 mins
The many applications of data contracts
Data contracts are such a simple and flexible pattern that can be applied to many different use cases. These include:
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