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Driving Data Quality with Data Contracts: A comprehensive guide to building reliable, trusted, and effective data platforms
Author(s): Andrew Jones (Author)
- Publisher: Packt Publishing
- Publication Date: 30 Jun. 2023
- Language: English
- Print length: 206 pages
- ISBN-10: 1837635005
- ISBN-13: 9781837635009
Book Description
Everything you need to know to apply data contracts and build a truly data-driven organization that harnesses quality data to deliver tangible business value
Purchase of the print or Kindle book includes a free PDF eBook
Key Features
- Understand data contracts and their power to resolving the problems in contemporary data platforms
- Learn how to design and implement a cutting-edge data platform powered by data contracts
- Access practical guidance from the pioneer of data contracts to get expert insights on effective utilization
Book Description
Despite the passage of time and the evolution of technology and architecture, the challenges we face in building data platforms persist. Our data often remains unreliable, lacks trust, and fails to deliver the promised value.
With Driving Data Quality with Data Contracts, you'll discover the potential of data contracts to transform how you build your data platforms, finally overcoming these enduring problems. You'll learn how establishing contracts as the interface allows you to explicitly assign responsibility and accountability of the data to those who know it best'the data generators'and give them the autonomy to generate and manage data as required. The book will show you how data contracts ensure that consumers get quality data with clearly defined expectations, enabling them to build on that data with confidence to deliver valuable analytics, performant ML models, and trusted data-driven products.
By the end of this book, you'll have gained a comprehensive understanding of how data contracts can revolutionize your organization's data culture and provide a competitive advantage by unlocking the real value within your data.
What you will learn
- Gain insights into the intricacies and shortcomings of today's data architectures
- Understand exactly how data contracts can solve prevalent data challenges
- Drive a fundamental transformation of your data culture by implementing data contracts
- Discover what goes into a data contract and why it's important
- Design a modern data architecture that leverages the power of data contracts
- Explore sample implementations to get practical knowledge of using data contracts
- Embrace best practices for the successful deployment of data contracts
Who this book is for
If you're a data engineer, data leader, architect, or practitioner thinking about your data architecture and looking to design one that enables your organization to get the most value from your data, this book is for you. Additionally, staff engineers, product managers, and software engineering leaders and executives will also find valuable insights.
Table of Contents
- A Brief History of Data Platforms
- Introducing Data Contracts
- How to Get Adoption in Your Organization
- Bringing Data Consumers and Generators Closer Together
- Embedding Data Governance
- What Makes Up a Data Contract
- A Contract-Driven Data Architecture
- A Sample Implementation
- Implementing Data Contracts In Your Organization
- Data Contracts in Practice
Editorial Reviews
Review
"Driving Data Quality with Data Contracts provides a strong conceptual foundation for data contracts and gives powerful tools for thinking about the practice of data contracts. The book progressively introduces complexity, interweaves real examples between explanations, and leaves the reader with opportunities to learn further.
Whether you're a data practitioner who is tired of being blamed for data quality issues or a business stakeholder who wants to promote data trust, this book is the gold standard for learning about data contracts."
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Kevin Hu, PhD
Co-founder and CEO, Metaplane
"This book is essential reading for anyone looking to implement Data Contracts at their organization, or more generally thinking about how to improve data management and governance in a modern, rapidly moving, data-driven organization.
Andrew Jones is one of key thinkers on Data Contracts. In this book, he clearly lays out the case for them, before discussing in practical steps how to successfully introduce them in your organization. Unlike many books on data, this is very clear and easy to follow, and covers both the organizational and technical challenges associated with implementing a new approach."
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Yali Sassoon, Cofounder and CPO, Snowplow
“Data contracts are crucial for reliable data architecture. That’s why I suggest you this book, so you can learn what data contracts are, why they are so essential, and how to apply them. But I really recommend reading this book because it not only gives you a general insight into data contracts, but also shares a detailed view of how data contracts are applied in the real world at GoCardless, a large fintech in the UK.”
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Dr Simon Harrer, Data Mesh Consultant at INNOQ
About the Author
Andrew Jones is a principal engineer at GoCardless, one of Europe’s leading Fintech's. He has over 15 years experience in the industry, with the first half primarily as a software engineer, before he moved into the data infrastructure and data engineering space. Joining GoCardless as its first data engineer, he led his team to build their data platform from scratch. After initially following a typical data architecture and getting frustrated with facing the same old challenges he’d faced for years, he started thinking there must be a better way, which led to him coining and defining the ideas around data contracts. Andrew is a regular speaker and writer, and he is passionate about helping organizations get maximum value from data.
