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Twitter: https://twitter.com/_abhisivasailam
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/abhi-sivasailam/
Abhi’s Data Mesh Learning Meetup: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-POiudR2_R0
Debezium blog post mentioned by Abhi: https://debezium.io/blog/2019/02/19/reliable-microservices-data-exchange-with-the-outbox-pattern/
In this episode, Abhi Sivasailam, Head of Growth and Analytics at unicorn startup Flexport, and Scott deep dive into data contracts. They covered a LOT of ground including:
- What is a data contract and how does it relate to API contracts and schema contracts
- Why data contracts are so crucial to treating data like a product and keeping data usable by consumers
- Abhi’s rules for a viable data contract
- The importance of the analytics engineer to overall data usefulness, especially re domain data ownership in data mesh
- Why of the socio of the socio-technical approach to data ownership is the most crucial aspect
- The lack of proper tooling to monitor and execute data contracts
- How to minimize disruptive changes to downstream data consumers
- The issues with domains sharing their data as it is persisted/stored in the database instead of sharing the context via the domain model
- Much, much more
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