Data Contracts

It’s all very well saying, as I did yesterday, that data producers need to do more to provide us better quality data the data we need to solve our problems.

For a data consumer to know if the data is applicable to their use case, they need to know what to expect from the data.

I wrote a few weeks ago about the difference between active vs passive data publishing, and how the active publishing of data leads to better outcomes for your organisation.

“You broke our data, so your PRs now need our signoff.

Data contracts underpin data products.

Passive data publishing is the norm in most organisations.

As mentioned yesterday, data contracts are best stored with the code that generates the data.

Data contracts should be stored as close as possible to the place the data is generated.

How, exactly, should you version data contracts?

Data contracts are often considered as a solution to improve the change management and quality of an organisations data.