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Published inMar 2024
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Aniruddha Deswandikar
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Aniruddha Deswandikar

Aniruddha Deswandikar holds a Bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering and is a seasoned Solutions Architect with over 30 years of industry experience as a developer, architect and technology strategist. His experience spans from start-ups to dotcoms to large enterprises. He has spent 18 years at Microsoft helping Microsoft customers build their next generation Applications and Data Analytics platforms. His experience across Application, Data and AI has helped him provide holistic guidance to companies large and small. Currently he is helping global enterprises set up their Enterprise-scale Analytical system using the Data Mesh Architecture. He is a Subject Matter Expert on Data Mesh in Microsoft and is currently helping multiple Microsoft Global Customers implement the Data Mesh architecture.
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What are the contents of a data contract?

The contents of a data contract will depend on a company’s requirements. The content can be segmented into a few buckets:

  • Identification: This is a way to uniquely identify a contract and associate it with the data it represents. Ideally, this should be a string formed by combining the department, the project, and the store that the data belongs to.
  • Basic information: This bucket has the obvious attributes that any user would want to know about the data, such as its name, description, and version, and the owners.
  • Schema: Schema defines the structure of the data. For structured data, this can be the table schema. For semi-structured data, this could be a JSON document with the schema explained. If it is an unstructured document, such as an image, it could be the image details such as image size, resolution, or image format. A schema definition can be provided as part of the contract. This helps users to ensure that the...
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Engineering Data Mesh in Azure Cloud
Published in: Mar 2024Publisher: PacktISBN-13: 9781805120780

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Aniruddha Deswandikar

Aniruddha Deswandikar holds a Bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering and is a seasoned Solutions Architect with over 30 years of industry experience as a developer, architect and technology strategist. His experience spans from start-ups to dotcoms to large enterprises. He has spent 18 years at Microsoft helping Microsoft customers build their next generation Applications and Data Analytics platforms. His experience across Application, Data and AI has helped him provide holistic guidance to companies large and small. Currently he is helping global enterprises set up their Enterprise-scale Analytical system using the Data Mesh Architecture. He is a Subject Matter Expert on Data Mesh in Microsoft and is currently helping multiple Microsoft Global Customers implement the Data Mesh architecture.
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