Discovering data contracts
When you’ve successfully built an autonomous, contract-driven data platform, you’ll find the number of data contracts explode.
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2024
Consistent data across your organisation
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One of the many benefits of a contract-based data platform is that it ensures consistency over how data is created, managed, and consumed across your organisation.
The power of data platforms
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Platforms in general, and data platforms in particular, can be a powerful enabler for an organisation.
Why we shift left
If you’re looking at implementing data contracts or moving towards a data mesh you will hear a lot about shifting left.
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”.
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.