Understanding how data flows and is transformed across the different layers of an organization’s application and data stack is one of the most challenging governance problems companies are facing today. Who is producing data? By David Araujo and Julia Peng.
Data is the lifeblood of the modern business, flowing to and from every corner of an organization, but without proper controls and visibility, it might end in undesirable, dangerous places and give rise to data obscurity or distrust.
With Kafka at its core, Confluent is in a prime position to empower teams to observe and track critical data flows across their organization immediately as they occur.
The article main parts:
- Stream Lineage: The map of all your data in motion
- Top 3 use cases powered by Stream Lineage
- Building data pipelines
- Troubleshooting data pipelines
- Compliance: Tracking data processing flows
With Stream Lineage, organizations can access an interactive, graphical UI of their data relationships in real time, with both a bird’s eye view and drill-down magnification. This full visibility lets you know what is happening with your data at any time: where your data is coming from or going, and how it was transformed upstream at a given time. Good read!
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