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

Provided as a free resource by DataStax https://www.datastax.com/products/datastax-astra?utm_source=DataMeshRadio (AstraDB) 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 Abhi's contact info: Twitter: https://twitter.com/_abhisivasailam (https://twitter.com/_abhisivasailam) LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/abhi-sivasailam/ (https://www.linkedin.com/in/abhi-sivasailam/) Abhi's Data Mesh Learning Meetup: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-POiudR2_R0 (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/ (https://debezium.io/blog/2019/02/19/reliable-microservices-data-exchange-with-the-outbox-pattern/) Data Mesh Radio is hosted by Scott Hirleman. If you want to connect with Scott, reach out to him at community at datameshlearning.com or on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/scotthirleman/ (https://www.linkedin.com/in/scotthirleman/) If you want to learn more and/or join the Data Mesh Learning Community, see here: https://datameshlearning.com/community/ (https://datameshlearning.com/community/) If you want to be a guest or give feedbac