CDC creates tight coupling
Many data platforms start with a change data capture (CDC) service to extract data from an organisations transactional databases - the source of truth for their most valuable data.
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Data contracts and data mesh
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There is strong alignment between the goals of data mesh and data contracts.
Deliberately model your data
If you’re creating data, you’re modelling data.
Computation is the most expensive part of your data stack
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Computation is the most expensive part of your data stack.
What is a data contract?
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I enjoyed this post by Ryan Collingwood on what the 🤬 is a Data Contract?
Migrating to a new data contract version
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Data evolves over time, and as such a data contract needs to support that.
Alert fatigue
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How many alerts do you get every day?
Data contracts enable data products
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While data products are for people, they still require an interface that allows people to access them - usually through a system such as a database, an analytics tool, a notebook, and so on.
Data products are delivered to people
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You’re delivering data - and data products - to people.
A Data Platform is not just for analytics
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Data is at the heart of every meaningful service, and it’s the effective use of that data which builds a product, and a business.