Daily data contracts tips

The bystander effect is a social phenomenon where individuals are less likely to offer help to a victim when other people are present.

Data engineering is complex, and things will go wrong.

Once you have a data contract defined you can represent it in as many different ways as you want.

People don’t like being told what to do.

In electrical systems, a circuit breaker is a device designed to automatically stop the flow of electricity in a circuit as a safety measure to prevent damage from faults like short circuits or overloads.

Following on from yesterdays mail, when I talked about the language of data engineering, it’s worth asking why you’re asked to accept “unrefined”, poor quality data.

The language we use is important.

Data contracts can be used to implement a data mesh.

Great data platforms reduce organisational complexity.

People new to data contracts often ask “how is that different to a schema?