This week, I had a surprising comment on one of my posts. I wanted to address it because your data deserves more than just SQL and Prayers.As you may know, I…
Making Pretty Documentation from Data Contracts
Great documentation shouldn’t be an afterthought — it should be a natural outcome of well-defined data contracts.This tutorial is the last of a series of four, explaining how you can use and…
Controlling Schema Drift
In this mission, we’re diving deep into one of the most subtle threats to data reliability: schema drift. As your systems evolve — fields are added, modified, or removed — your once-perfect data contracts…
Playing with Data Products
In the previous tutorial, you built and modified a data contract. In this tutorial, you will see that building a data product is also a matter of only a few…
Experimenting with Data Contracts
Are you among the curious who understand a data contract but fail to apprehend its power? Are you writing data contracts by hand, and would you like to proofread them…
So You Want to Work With Data Contracts and Data Products?
Let’s be honest: data contracts and data products sound like something between legal paperwork and something you’d find in a warehouse.However, in reality, they’re the backbone of modern data ecosystems….
The I in IBM stands for Inspiration, and the M for Massachusetts
I am back from Think 2025, the annual strategy-oriented IBM conference. The Hynes Conference Center, located in the heart of Boston, MA, USA, hosted the conference from May 5th to…
Data Product vs. Data Contract: What’s the Difference?
Data contracts and data products are like inseparable cousins — always working together, always aligned, and always making sure things run smoothly. One ensures that data is structured, reliable, and consistent, while…
Is DeepSeek an Enormous Geopolitical Teasing?
If you missed the news, DeepSeek is a Chinese version of OpenAI. They made the headlines a couple of weeks ago, and everybody was already burying all the American companies….
ODCS Roadmap
I am privileged to announce the availability of Open Data Contract Standard (ODCS) v2.2.2 from Bitol, a common project of The Linux Foundation (LF AI & Data Foundation ) and…