Providing self-served data infrastructure
Data generators must be able to create and manage their data products with agility and autonomy if we are going to improve the accessibility of quality data that leads to valuable business outcomes.
To enable that, the tooling implemented as part of our contract-driven architecture needs to be self-servable by those data generators. There should be no waiting on a central data or operations teams for review, slowing the data generators down and becoming a bottleneck.
We can be confident in allowing this because we have implemented the guidelines and guardrails that manage the risks, as we discussed in the previous section. That allows us to trust our data generators, and by showing we trust them we are promoting a sense of ownership of the data. That sense of ownership automatically translates into a feeling of responsibility and accountability for the data, and the data products they are providing.
As we’ve discussed throughout...
