#9 Data Contracts Deep Dive – The Pains and the Solution(?) – Interview with Abhi Sivasailam

Dec 28, 2021

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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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