Don't let people plug the gaps in your processes
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Think of the processes you have in place.
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Give me a minute or two a day and I’ll show you how to transform your organisations data with data contracts.
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(Don’t worry—I hate spam, too, and I’ll NEVER share your email address with anyone!)Love to read the little tidbits of insight and advice! The fact everything is both short and to-the point makes it actionable and easy to implement. Of course it's clear that Andrew goes deep on data contracts, data products and all the minute details. But as someone once said, the people who really get things are the ones that can package it in a clear language! Focusing a lot on the (actually hard) aspects around driving changes in culture and people.
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You broke our data, so your PRs now need our signoff
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“You broke our data, so your PRs now need our signoff.
Data must be trusted to be useful
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What can you do with data you don’t trust?
Leaky abstractions are ok
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All abstractions leak some details of the complexities it is trying to hide.
Platforms enable innovation
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Your data platform shouldn’t presuppose what can be built upon them.
You have permission not to build
Many of us engineers enjoy building things.
Do you need a new data platform?
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There will be times when you look at the data platform you’ve got and think how great it would be to rip it out and start again.
Minimise the time you need to support your users
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An effective data platform provides the right tooling and abstractions that allow its users to get things done without the need for constant support from your team.
Data products and data contracts
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Data contracts underpin data products.
Treat the cause of your data quality problems
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We spend a lot of our time fixing the symptoms of poor quality data.