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.
Data Platform
2024
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:
2023
A production ready data platform
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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 vs Data contracts
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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.
Infering rather than defining
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In yesterday’s note I wrote about the problem with defaults.
The problem with defaults
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Let’s say 20 years ago you ran your code in an environment you configured simply as python.
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