Driving Data Quality with Data Contracts

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Data Contracts in Practice

In this final chapter, we’ll look at working with data contracts in practice, on a day-to-day basis. We’ll start by looking at how to design a data contract, breaking that down into four easy steps that, through strong collaboration between the data generators and the data consumers, will lead to a data contract being deployed to production.

Next, we’ll look at enforcing and monitoring these data contracts. This includes the data contract definition itself, the quality of the data, and the performance and dependability of the data. We’ll provide solutions that guarantee the quality of the data through the data contract.

Finally, we’ll look at how best to publish data to a data contract. This can be more complex ...