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Data & Analytics · Advanced

Data Contract

A formal agreement between data producers and consumers that specifies schema, semantics, quality expectations, SLAs and change management for a dataset.

Definition

Contracts shift quality left to producers and prevent breaking changes from silently propagating. They are often enforced in CI and pipelines.

Exam tip

Preventing upstream teams from breaking downstream pipelines with schema changes = data contracts.

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