Data Governance, Quality, and Observability in Production
Chapter 1: Foundations of Data Governance Code
Defining Governance in Engineering Terms
Data Classification and Tagging Strategies
Role-Based Access Control Models
Policy-as-Code Architectures
Practice: Implementing Access Policies
Chapter 2: Data Quality Dimensions and Testing
Core Dimensions of Data Quality
Anatomy of a Data Assertion
Validating Schemas and Types
Statistical Profiling and Distribution Checks
Practice: Writing Data Validation Suites
Chapter 3: Data Observability Systems
The Pillars of Data Observability
Monitoring Freshness and Latency
Volume and Row Count Anomalies
Schema Drift Detection
Practice: Building a Freshness Monitor
Chapter 4: Data Lineage and Metadata Management
Static vs Dynamic Lineage
The OpenLineage Standard
Dependency Graph Construction
Impact Analysis Techniques
Practice: Extracting Lineage from Logs
Chapter 5: Automated Reliability in CI Pipelines
Pre-commit Hooks for Data Code
Implementing Quality Gates
Circuit Breakers in Pipelines
Alerting and Incident Management
Practice: Configuring a CI Data Test
Data Classification and Tagging Strategies
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- The DAMA Guide to the Data Management Body of Knowledge (DAMA-DMBOK 2), DAMA International, 2017 (Technics Publications) - Provides a comprehensive framework for data management, including data governance, metadata management, and data classification principles, essential for establishing a robust data governance program.
- Understanding Policy Tags and Access Policies, Snowflake Documentation, 2023 (Snowflake Inc.) - Official documentation explaining how to implement data classification, tagging, and associated access control policies within the Snowflake data platform. Directly relevant to programmatic enforcement of sensitivity levels.
- Model Properties & Tags, dbt Labs Documentation, 2023 (dbt Labs) - Official documentation detailing how to define metadata, including custom tags, for data models using dbt. This supports the 'Infrastructure as Code' approach for explicit data classification in transformation pipelines.
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