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A few months back Whatnot published a great post on how they are using data contracts.
In a response to my LinkedIn post on how every data transform is technical debt, Tim Hiebenthal commented:
Data contracts can be applied in various places, but they’re most useful at the boundaries of ownership.
It’s easy to see data contracts as something to enforce on your data producers.
Data contracts set the expectations for the data.
I had a great panel discussion with Amy Raygada and facilitated by Jean-Georges Perrin for Data Mesh Radio.
As I wrote yesterday, many data professionals don’t trust the data they are building on.
2023
Earlier this week I was on a panel organised by Data Council and Soda titled “Data Contracts: The Next Frontier”.
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.