Schema
45 posts filed under Schema.
Data Lineage: From 'Nice to Have' to 'Must Have
Without data lineage, every schema change is a game of "what did we just break."
Read →What the Books Got Wrong About Data
The DevOps playbook assumes you can roll back - data doesn't work that way.
Read →The Data Contracts Rollout - From Chaos to 60% Coverage in 90 Days
Data contracts sound great in theory. Here's what it actually looks like to implement them - week by week, with the parts that almost …
Read →The Data Incident Response Playbook (MTTR Edition)
When your data breaks, how long until someone notices? If the answer is "when the CFO calls," you don't have an incident response process.
Read →The Acquisition Disaster - When Technical Debt Tanks a Deal
Due diligence found 15 "temporary" integrations from 2019 still running in production. The acquisition deal died that afternoon.
Read →The Deployment Pipeline Concept Applied to Data Products
Your data team deploys to production the same way software teams did in 2008. Manually, nervously, with a 1000-step runbook nobody trusts.
Read →CALMS for Data Organizations
The DevOps Handbook has a framework called CALMS. Most data teams only do the A. Here's what they're missing.
Read →Communication Overhead Kills Data Team Velocity
You doubled your data team. Delivery got worse. Fred Brooks explained why in 1975.
Read →The Five Ideals Applied to Data Teams
Gene Kim wrote The Unicorn Project about a developer trapped in bureaucracy. Data engineers live that story every day.
Read →The Three Ways Applied to Data Pipelines
Your data team ships pipelines fast. That's the First Way. They're ignoring the other two.
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