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.
Data Platform
2024
Avoid overwhelming your users with choice
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It can be tempting to provide a range of tools for your data platform users - tools that fill every niche, so there’s always the “right tool for the job”.
Great data platforms reduce organisational complexity
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Great data platforms reduce organisational complexity.
Vertical slicing
When delivering on a large project (data contracts, data mesh, or any large project) you need to realise value early and often.
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.
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.
The increasing capabilities of a data platform
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Software engineers often have many capabilities at the platform layer that helps them deploy changes with confidence, including:
Active consumption
Are the consumers of your data platform active?
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