Data engineering systems are complex and interconnected with myriad and often opaque chains of dependencies. As they scale, the problems of visibility and dependency management can increase at an exponential rate. In order to turn this into a tractable problem one approach is to define and enforce contracts between producers and consumers of data. Ananth Packildurai created Schemata as a way to make the creation of schema contracts a lightweight process, allowing the dependency chains to be constructed and evolved iteratively and integrating validation of changes into standard delivery systems. In this episode he shares the design of the project and how it fits into your development practices.

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Your host is Tobias Macey and today I’m interviewing Ananth Packkildurai about Schemata, a modelling framework for decentralised domain-driven ownership of data.

The intro and outro music is from The Hug by The Freak Fandango Orchestra / CC BY-SA

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