Improving Organizational Efficiency and Trust with Data Products

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Introduces the concept of data products and data contracts as a mechanism to shift data quality and governance left, enabling application engineers to take more responsibility for data quality at the point of creation. Details how data contracts, human- and machine-readable documents capturing metadata like schema, SLAs, and ownership, are published to Confluent Schema Registry. Explains how these contracts drive Kafka topics as interfaces and how Tableflow can materialize data into tabular formats, maintaining schema and metadata for analytical use cases.