Daily data contracts tips

Following on from yesterdays note, another almost surprisingly simple way to stand out at work and further your career is to be dependable.

My first promotion, from a graduate level to just above, was completely unexpected.

Welcome to day one of my series of short, actionable tips for your career!

Your contracts-backed data platform should give your users a production ready way to generate, manage and consume data, and make that data available through a reliable interface.

3 common data assumptions I believe are worth challenging:

Earlier this week I was on a panel organised by Data Council and Soda titled “Data Contracts: The Next Frontier”.

What does your exec team think about data?

Mostly when I talk about data contracts I’m talking about applying them to data generated within our organisations.

APIs and data contracts have a lot in common, and APIs were part of the inspiration behind data contracts when I was coming up with the idea a few years back.

In yesterday’s note I wrote about the problem with defaults.