SE Radio 561: Dan DeMers on Dataware
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The Importance of Dynamic Structure in Postgres
In a model where the data is owned by an application, and if you're another application and you're trying to interface with my data, because I own it if I'm the application, but you're talking to the code, you now create this data contract. Which is your code needs to be compiled against some type of standard that if that standard changes, if I rename a column or something, and that changes the external service, then your code is going to break in accordance with that. But when data is now front and center and it is existing on a separate plane, that just doesn't cut it. You can't have these rigid contracts, you need the ability for one business team
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