Avoid overwhelming your users with choice
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It can be tempting to provide a range of tools for your data platform users - tools that fill every niche, so there’s always the “right tool for the job”.
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The bystander effect
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The bystander effect is a social phenomenon where individuals are less likely to offer help to a victim when other people are present.
Learn from your incidents
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Data engineering is complex, and things will go wrong.
One definition, many representations
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Once you have a data contract defined you can represent it in as many different ways as you want.
Being part of something bigger
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People don’t like being told what to do.
The circuit breaker pattern
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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.
Why are you expected to accept unrefined data?
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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 of data engineering
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The language we use is important.
Data contracts implement a data mesh
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Data contracts can be used to implement a data mesh.
Great data platforms reduce organisational complexity
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Great data platforms reduce organisational complexity.