Blog Article
March 25, 2025
Shift Left Data Conference
March 30, 2025
Data Quality
March 5, 2024
August 14, 2024
This talk covers Adevinta Spain's transition from a best-effort governance model to a governed data integration system by design. By creating source-aligned data products, this shift aims to enhance data quality and reliability from the moment data is ingested.
As Glassdoor scaled to petabytes of data, ensuring data quality became critical for maintaining trust and supporting strategic decisions. Glassdoor implemented a proactive, “shift left” strategy focused on embedding data quality practices directly into the development process. This talk will detail how Glassdoor leveraged data contracts, static code analysis integrated into the CI/CD pipeline, and automated anomaly detection to empower software engineers and prevent data issues at the source. Attendees will learn how proactive data quality management reduces risk, promotes stronger collaboration across teams, enhances operational efficiency, and fosters a culture of trust in data at scale.
Data DevOps applies rigorous software development practices—such as version control, automated testing, and governance—to data workflows, empowering software engineers to proactively manage data changes and address data-related issues directly within application code. By adopting a "shift left" approach with Data DevOps, SWE teams become more aware of data requirements, dependencies, and expectations early in the software development lifecycle, significantly reducing risks, improving data quality, and enhancing collaboration. This session will provide practical strategies for integrating Data DevOps into application development, enabling teams to build more robust data products and accelerate adoption of production AI systems.
A core idea behind shifting Data Left is simple but often overlooked: data is code. Or more accurately—data is produced by code. It’s not just some downstream artifact that lives in tables and gets piped into dashboards and spreadsheets. Every record, event, or log starts somewhere—created, updated, or deleted by a line of code. And just like DevOps demonstrated, if you want to manage something well, you start at the point of creation.
Data governance
Schema on read promised flexibility—but instead created chaos. By removing constraints without guardrails, we unleashed brittle, unmanageable data systems. It’s time to fix the mistake. Learn how data contracts, enforced at the source, can restore trust and eliminate downstream firefighting.
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Data-centric cultures are great in theory. But they need to deliver in practice, especially when it comes to promoting data literacy and upskilling teams.
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When it comes to the importance of data quality in modern businesses, data SLAs need to be much more than a wink and a nod.
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