Solving a small problem with data contracts

You don’t need to run a big transformation project to start your adoption of data contracts.

You can start with a small problem you need to solve right now.

For example, let’s say you have a dataset created with dbt, and you want to adopt data contracts to automate the anonymisation of personal data in that dataset and others like it when it exceeds your data retention policies.

You simply:

1. Create a data contract that categorises the data in the dataset
2. Ask your data producers to categorise their data
3. Deploy an anonymisation tool that uses that metadata to anonymise data in that dataset

The dataset itself hasn’t changed. Existing users do not need to do any migration.

But you’ve delivered some value, and started on your journey to data contracts.