Data contracts and the data mesh straw man

Data contracts are often viewed as part of a data mesh implementation, but you don’t need to be transforming to a data mesh architecture to benefit from data contracts.

Data contracts, just like APIs, are just good practice.

APIs are essential for a microservice architecture, but you’d still use them for inter-service communication if you had just a few services.

Data contracts are essential for a data mesh architecture, but you’d still use them for data management if you had just a few data domains.