New data contracts workshops announced
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The next two instalments of my data contracts workshop, in partnership with Soda, have been announced.
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2024
Accountable vs responsible
The quality of a decision increases directly proportional to the degree to which the person is responsible.
Data contracts require a change of mindset
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I wrote yesterday how using data contracts allows you to:
Data contracts are simple, but powerful
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Data contracts are a simple idea.
Centralised vs Decentralised - there and back again
How many times has your data team gone from centralised, to decentralised, and back to centralised again?
Writing code is the easy part
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Writing code.
Your success is determined by your communication
More than anything else, your success is determined by your communication.
Source systems must provide applicable data
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One of our aims with data contracts was to move away from our existing Change Data Capture (CDC) architecture, where the entire database is synced to the data warehouse with exactly the same structure.
What organisations can benefit from a data mesh?
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A reader recently asked me: What organisations can benefit from a data mesh?
The limits of centralisation
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There’s a limit to what you can do with a fully centralised data team.