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Driving Data Quality with Data Contracts
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Driving Data Quality with Data Contracts

by Andrew Jones
June 2023
Intermediate to advanced
206 pages
5h 33m
English
Packt Publishing
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A Contract-Driven Data Architecture

In the previous chapter, we saw exactly what makes up a data contract. In this chapter, we’re going to build on that by looking at how we can use the data contract to drive our data architecture. We’ll introduce the concept of a contract-driven data architecture and show how powerful this can be. We believe this is a step-change in how we build data platforms, and we’ll discuss the many benefits we get when adopting this architecture pattern.

As part of that discussion, we’ll introduce the three principles that unlock those benefits: autonomy, guardrails, and consistency, and you’ll learn how those principles benefit the data generators, the data consumers, and the organization. To promote autonomy, we need ...

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ISBN: 9781837635009