Data Products
A dataset with an owner, an interface, an SLO, and consumers who can rely on it.
4 to work through
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intermediate
A marketplace publishes a merchant sales data product with a 15-minute freshness SLO to roughly 200000 merchant consumers. A flash sale of the kind Flipkart runs takes order volume to about 20 times normal for six hours. No pipeline fails and no alert fires. What happens to the data product over those six hours and what stops it?
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intermediate
A ride-hailing and delivery platform operating across eight South-East Asian markets, of the kind Grab operates, has one internal trips_enriched table that 40 teams already read directly. Leadership wants it published as a data product with an owner, a freshness SLO and per-market residency rules. You cannot break the 40 readers and there is no cutover weekend available. Give the sequence.
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intermediate
A team's dataset is heavily used, so the platform group proposes promoting it to a data product with an owner, a published interface and an SLO. The team is willing. What have they actually taken on, and when does that bill arrive?
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advanced
Design a data product exposing merchant sales analytics to hundreds of thousands of independent merchants on a commerce platform. What makes it a product rather than a table?
1 min answer
4 terms in this topic
Data Product
A dataset published deliberately as an interface with a named owner, documented semantics, quality guarantees and a change policy - as distinct from …
conceptData Product
A curated, documented, owned dataset treated as a product with consumers, a service level and a lifecycle, rather than as the output of a pipeline.
practiceDataset Deprecation Policy
The written rule stating how a published dataset or column is retired - the notice period, how consumers are identified, and what happens if they do …
patternPartition Immutability Promise
A published commitment that once a time partition is closed its rows will never change, with corrections issued as new rows - so consumers can checkp…
Neighbouring topics
Data Governance & Semantics
General material on ownership, meaning, quality and control of data at enterprise scale.
Data Mesh
Domain ownership, data as a product, self-serve platform, and federated governance.
Data Contracts
Producers committing to schema, semantics and freshness, and breaking builds when they do not.
Data Catalog
Discovery, ownership and technical metadata, and why catalogues go stale.
Business Glossary
Agreeing what a term means before arguing about which number is right.
Semantic Layer
Metric definitions held once and served to every tool that asks.
Master Data Management
One authoritative record for a customer or product across systems that each have their own.
Reference Data
Code lists, hierarchies and currencies — small, shared, and quietly load-bearing.
Data Quality Dimensions
Completeness, accuracy, timeliness, consistency, validity and uniqueness as testable claims.
Data Observability
Freshness, volume, schema and distribution monitoring for pipelines that fail silently.
Data Stewardship
The operating model that makes ownership a role rather than a slide.
Data Access Models
Role, attribute and purpose-based access over analytical data, and how they compose.
Row & Column-Level Security
Restricting slices of a table rather than the whole table, and where it is enforced.
Tokenisation & Masking
Dynamic masking, deterministic tokens, and preserving joinability without exposure.
Retention & Purge
Deleting from an append-only estate, and proving the deletion happened.
Data Sharing & Clean Rooms
Collaborating on data neither party may hand over, with computation as the interface.
Sensitivity Labelling
Propagating a classification through joins and derived tables so controls follow the data.
BI Governance
Dashboard sprawl, certified reports, and the number the board is allowed to see.
Self-Service vs Governed
Letting analysts move fast without four teams reporting four different revenues.