Data contracts on streaming data
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Data contracts are typically used to apply change management to data in tables, in a data warehouse.
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2024
Data contracts encourage domain ownership
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Implementing data contracts at the platform layer gives it the capabilities needed to enable domain ownership.
The increasing capabilities of a data platform
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Software engineers often have many capabilities at the platform layer that helps them deploy changes with confidence, including:
Interfaces, communication, and data
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When:
Data Contracts are about setting expectations
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Data Contracts are about setting expectations, including:
Apply discipline to your data production
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Software engineers use processes and tooling to instil discipline into the creation of software.
2 parts to implementing data contracts
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There are 2 parts to implementing data contracts.
A minimal data contract implementation
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A data contracts implementation doesn’t have to be complicated.
57% of data practitioners highlight data quality as one of their chief obstacles
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dbt Lab’s 2024 State of Analytics Engineering found 57% of data practitioners highlight data quality as one of their chief obstacles in preparing data for analysis.
Data producers need to know why
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It’s all very well saying, as I did yesterday, that data producers need to do more to provide us better quality data the data we need to solve our problems.