Gold as the Contract: Schema Evolution, Data Products, and Governance in Microsoft Fabric A schema change is rarely “just a schema change.” It’s the moment an upstream team’s perfectly reasonable adjustment becomes a downstream team’s broken report, confusing metric, or silent misinterpretation. And that’s why schema evolution has always been a source of anxiety: a schema isn’t simply structure—it’s an interface. In this post, I’ll do three things. First, I’ll ground why schema evolution has historically been such a persistent concern. Next, I’ll reframe Medallion with Gold as the published surface area of the data product, and Silver as an optional workshop layer where data is supplemented and transformed.

Stop treating #SchemaEvolution as an engineering failure. In a modern #MicrosoftFabric #Lakehouse, it’s an interface management problem: Bronze absorbs change, Silver optionally augments it, and Gold publishes the #DataProduct contract—governed, versioned, and consumable. #DataGovernance

When Facts Don’t Live in a Domain: Why Data Products Beat Pure Domain-Driven Data Engineering There’s a pattern I see in mature analytics organizations: as soon as the data platform gets big enough to feel “enterprise,” someone reaches for domain-driven design (DDD) as the organizing principle for data engineering and governance. It’s an understandable move. DDD gives us language for ownership, boundaries, and “this team is responsible for that thing.” And when you’re trying to untangle a spaghetti warehouse, that sounds like oxygen. But here’s the catch: the most valuable data in a warehouse—the fact tables in traditional star schemas—often doesn’t live neatly inside a single domain.

Stop trying to force fact tables into a single “domain.” The highest-value data usually lives at the intersections—and that’s exactly where #DomainDriven #DataEngineering gets messy.
A #DataProduct model makes intersection facts easier to own, to govern, and to consume. #MicrosoftFabric

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You’re Thinking About Data Products All Wrong | DataKitchen When data team leaders hear "data products," they immediately think of the stuff their team creates. But focusing on the "what" completely misses the mark. Data products aren't about what you create, ...

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#databs #dataproduct #dataops

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#datamesh #dataproduct #datacontract

Rainy weekend ahead? Learn a thing or two on #DataContract and #DataProduct. open.substack.com/pub/datainte...

🚨 Big milestone for #dataproduct builders!

👉 Dive in, explore the docs, and most importantly:
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Let’s build the future of data together.

The Next Generation of Data Platforms is Data Mesh As enterprises become more agile, data centralization appears more and more as a thing of the past. As pure decentralization also failed, a third form needed to appear. This is the 2025 update.

My latest post on Substack... and my first. dataintelligenceplatform.substack.com/p/the-next-g...

#datacontract #dataproduct #datamesh #dataintelligence #data

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. Let's change this perspective in a fun way.

🚀 New #DataContract / #DataProduct Article Alert!
So you want to work with data contracts and data products?
No fluff. No BS. Just real tools.

👉 Read it, clap for it, and share it: medium.com/jgpai/so-you...

#DataContracts #DataProducts #ODCS #ODPS Bitol.io jgp.ai #DataEngineering #APIs #YAML

What do you think this week's domain or use case is for our #dataproduct? There's a trick with the category...

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What do you think this week's domain or use case is for our #dataproduct?

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#DataProduct #DataContract #Bitol #OpenStandards #ODCS #ODPS #ProductDiscovery #BetaTest #DataMesh #ExperimentAndLearn

What do you think this week's domain or use case is for our #dataproduct?

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What do you think this week's domain or use case is for our #dataproduct?

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It encompasses the concept of multiple #datasets per #dataproduct (or more precisely, a #dataquantum). It defines, step by step, the interaction between smart applications, the data product, and the data in a trust-enabled data infrastructure.

#datamesh #podem #dataproduct #dataquantum #patent | Jean-Georges Perrin My first patent has been officially published. It is also one of the first patents around #datamesh. It discusses dynamic data query routing for managing access to datasets with multiple versions. I...

My first patent has been officially published. It is also one of the first patents around #DataMesh.
It discusses dynamic data query routing for managing access to datasets with multiple versions.
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#podem #dataproduct #dataquantum #patent

What do you think this week's domain or use case is for our #dataproduct?

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What do you think this week's domain or use case is for our #dataproduct?

Don't forget to check out the "Data Products for all ages" book at amzn.to/4hVisVX.

This week's data product is related to a country. What do you think this week's domain or use case is for our #dataproduct?

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What do you think this week's domain or use case is for our #dataproduct? It can be tricky :)

Don't forget to check out the "Data Products for all ages" book at amzn.to/4hVisVX.

What do you think this week's domain or use case is for our #dataproduct?

Don't forget to check out the "Data Products for all ages" book at amzn.to/4hVisVX.

Why I'm No Longer Talking to Architects About Microservices I'm done talking about microservices: the term is confusing, discussions are abstract, and without organisational change, microservices are pointless

A l'heure du #dataProduct de du #dataContract sans doute que l'on pourrait relativiser en prenant du recul avec l'historique du #Microservice

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#pratique #pragmatique

This week's among my most favorite domains. What do you think this week's domain or use case is for our #dataproduct?

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Jacobus Geluk: use-case trees for the data-product marketplace Jacobus Geluk sees a standards-based data-product marketplace as key to creating the data economy that enables AI agents to succeed at scale.

After 15 years of building reliable #AI solutions, Jacobus Geluk sees a standards-based #dataProduct marketplace as key to #AIagent success. His #useCaseTree spec complements his earlier work on #DPROD, describing the demand side of the #dataEconomy.

knowledgegraphinsights.com/jacobus-geluk/

This week's card is all about geography. What do you think the domain or use case is for our #dataproduct? And early for my followers on #bluesky ;)

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Stéphane Heckel on LinkedIn: #satire History seems to be repeating itself, but with a tendency towards complexity that can sometimes make us lose sight of the essentials. Let&#39;s review some…

#dataproduct and #datacontract terms could be considered a modern equivalent of what we already know as microservices and API. It would then simply be an interface allowing access to data in a structured and controlled manner.
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This week's in one of my favorite domain. What do you think this week's domain or use case is for our #dataproduct? And early for my followers on #bluesky ;)

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DEMO: Data Product Composition tool - Building a DATAMITE product YouTube video by DATAMITE HORIZON EU

📣 New DATAMITE demo available | Data Product Composition tool - Building a DATAMITE product, by our partner Centre for Research & Technology Hellas (CERTH).

✅ The #DataProduct Composition tool transforms #datasets into data products.

Watch our new demo here⤵️
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What is this week's #dataproduct?

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Data Product vs. Data Contract: What’s the Difference? Data contracts and data products are like inseparable cousins — always together, always aligned, and always making sure things run…

#dataproduct & #datacontract have a strong synergy… medium.com/data-mesh-le...