Summary

In this chapter, we explored the design and development of a data product.

We began by examining how to define the interactions between a data product and its external environment, both locally within the bounded context and globally within the entire organization ecosystem. Correctly designing these interactions is crucial because it ensures interoperability between products and effective coordination between the teams that develop them.

Next, we examined the main internal components of a data product and how to describe them using a descriptor file. Defining a descriptor file is essential for uniformly managing the metadata related to data products, thus facilitating their discovery and understanding by consumers and their life cycle automation by the self serve platform. The main characteristics of a good specification for defining a descriptor file are expressiveness, computability, flexibility, extensibility, composability, and independence from specific technologies...