Driving Data Quality with Data Contracts

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A Brief History of Data Platforms

Before we can appreciate why we need to make a fundamental shift to a data contracts-backed data platform in order to improve the quality of our data, and ultimately the value we can get from that data, we need to understand the problems we are trying to solve. I’ve found the best way to do this is to look back at the recent generations of data architectures. By doing that, we’ll see that despite the vast improvements in the tooling available to us, we’ve been carrying through the same limitations in the architecture. That’s why we continue to struggle with the same old problems.

Despite these challenges, the importance of data continues to grow. As it is used in more and more business-critical applications, ...