Learnable systems with data contracts
Data contracts provide a standard way for your organisation to create, manage, and consume data.

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Love to read the little tidbits of insight and advice! The fact everything is both short and to-the point makes it actionable and easy to implement. Of course it's clear that Andrew goes deep on data contracts, data products and all the minute details. But as someone once said, the people who really get things are the ones that can package it in a clear language! Focusing a lot on the (actually hard) aspects around driving changes in culture and people.
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Data contracts provide a standard way for your organisation to create, manage, and consume data.
We can influence the behaviour of people and processes through the platforms we build and the design decisions we make.

Happy new year everyone! If you had a break over the holidays I hope you had a good one.

A couple of months ago the team at Notion published a great post titled a brief history of Notion’s data catalog.
The initial idea for data contracts was to create an interface through which reliable and well-structured data could be made available to consumers. Like an API, but for data.
Treating data as a product is likely the most widely adopted concept from Data Mesh.
Welcome to my new and improved newsletter! I’ll be publishing in this new format weekly on Friday mornings, discussing how to implement data mesh, data products and data contracts. I hope you enjoy it, but as always you can unsubscribe at any time.