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Governing event data at scale is a major challenge. As organizations grow, collecting consistent, reliable data across teams requires tremendous overhead. Central data teams become bottlenecks, while product teams bypass governance to move faster.

There’s a better way.

This guide gives you a tactical blueprint of how to apply Data Mesh and Data Contracts to ensure consistent data at scale, without sacrificing speed or team autonomy.

This should become the onboarding document of data teams looking to shift data design left and drive data driven decisioning and outcomes within organizations!
— Archana Acharya, Senior director, Data Science, AI and Analytics @ Rocketmortgage

Our thanks to Glenn Vanderlinden, Maura Church, Fredric Lundgren, Claire Armstrong, Qiaoran Abbate, Giorgio Terreni, Cathy Wong, Timo Dechau, Thomas in't Veld, Jacopo Himberg, and Jake Winter for their contributions to the ideas in this paper.