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Data contracts: driving data culture change

on YouTube 26m
Talkat Data Teams Summit 2023 · on Wednesday, 2023-01-25· [data-engineering, developer-experience]

speaker

name:Andrew Jones
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video:https://youtu.be/vrWrNVIlfzQ
slides:none on file

summary

GoCardless implements data contracts since 2021 to stop surprise schema changes and restore trust: it plumbs CDC into BigQuery to recreate source tables, then exposes data contracts as API interfaces with versioning, SLAs and explicit ownership assigned to product teams. That shifts responsibility back to generators, reduces brittle downstream ETL, and supports products like Success+ and Protect+ that rely on stable inputs. Adoption pairs tooling with repeated engagement, business-value stories and engineering allies so contracts actually change behavior and improve data quality.

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chapters (6)

  1. 0:00Introduction to data contracts
  2. 3:36Current data platform challenges
  3. 10:01What is a data contract
  4. 17:14New data architecture with contracts
  5. 19:40Driving data culture change
  6. 24:54Summary and Q&A

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