Summary

In this chapter, we’ve shown how to adopt data contracts in your organization. We discussed how to get started by identifying a suitable use case to prove the concept and supported that with a minimum viable product (MVP) of our data tooling.

Once we’ve proved the value of data contracts, we can start migrating the rest of our datasets over, so we next looked at how to approach that migration. As that progresses, we’ll not only have more data contracts, we’ll also have increased the distribution of ownership. So, we looked next at how to ensure they remain discoverable and accessible through the implementation of a data catalog and data lineage.

Finally, we developed this further by showing how to build a mature, data contracts-backed data culture that delivers on our objective to become a truly data-driven organization.

In the next chapter, we’ll close the book by looking at working with data contracts in practice on a day-to-day...