If data is part of engineering, do we need data contracts?
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David Jayatillake published an interesting post recently titled “We don’t need data contracts”.
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Implement your tools where your users expect them to be
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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.
Bringing producers and consumers together with data contracts
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The definition and evolution of the data contract should be a collaboration between the data producers and the data consumers.
Being boring
An article that has stayed with me since it was published back in 2015 is Dan McKinley’s Choose Boring Technology.
The contract-based data platform at MatHem
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Robert Sahlin wrote a nice post on the data platform at MatHem, a Swedish retailer.
A contract-based data platform - new post on Medium
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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.
How Whatnot are using data contracts
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A few months back Whatnot published a great post on how they are using data contracts.
Data contracts set the expectations
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Data contracts set the expectations for the data.
Moving less data, with federated queries
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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.
We are not unique
Most of the problems we’re solving in our organisations are not unique to us:
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