Data Platform

The definition and evolution of the data contract should be a collaboration between the data producers and the data consumers.

An article that has stayed with me since it was published back in 2015 is Dan McKinley’s Choose Boring Technology.

Robert Sahlin wrote a nice post on the data platform at MatHem, a Swedish retailer.

Over on Medium I’ve published a post about a contract-based data platform, which is an updated version of my post to this newsletter back in December.

A few months back Whatnot published a great post on how they are using data contracts.

Data contracts set the expectations for the data.

I mentioned yesterday that one way to reduce the amount of data transformations (and the costs of them) is to challenge the assumption we need to bring all data centrally before it can be useful.

Most of the problems we’re solving in our organisations are not unique to us:

Your contracts-backed data platform should give your users a production ready way to generate, manage and consume data, and make that data available through a reliable interface.

APIs and data contracts have a lot in common, and APIs were part of the inspiration behind data contracts when I was coming up with the idea a few years back.