Data Contract / Flexible Ingestion

Kind: tension

Record: tension:data-contract-flexible-ingestion

Canonical: Schema

"data-contract" (contracts-core layer) is traded against "Flexible Ingestion" (contracts-core layer) — a principle cannot be scope-separated from a quality, metric, or cost it competes with; resolve by measuring "Flexible Ingestion" and choosing an explicit operating point.

Listed in Tensions, after Service Contract / Distributed Evolution and before Schema Contract / Schema Flexibility.

In tension with

• Data Contract
• Flexible Ingestion

Mechanism

• irreducible-tradeoff

Linked from

• Contracts / Interfaces / Compatibility
• Resolution mechanisms