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Published inJun 2023
PublisherPackt
ISBN-139781837635009
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Andrew Jones
Andrew Jones
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Andrew Jones

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.
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Discovering data contracts

As the amount of data contracts increase and we successfully shift ownership of those left to the data generators, the ownership of data increases. That will make it more difficult for data consumers to know where the data is, how to access it, and who owns it.

There are two related tools that can help us with this problem: a data catalog, and data lineage. In this section, we’ll introduce each of these tools in turn and explain why they are important when implementing data contracts in your organization.

We’ll cover the following topics in this section:

  • What is a data catalog?
  • Why are data catalogs important for discovering data contracts?
  • What is data lineage?
  • Why is data lineage important for data contracts?

What is a data catalog?

Before discussing how data catalogs help us discover data products built with data contracts, let’s first explain what a data catalog is.

A data catalog is an inventory...

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Published in: Jun 2023Publisher: PacktISBN-13: 9781837635009

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Andrew Jones

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.
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