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Silent schema drift is one of the most common and costly causes of broken data pipelines and degraded AI models — and it rarely announces itself. Data contracts are the structural mechanism that catches upstream changes before they reach production, enforcing schema, quality, and freshness expectations at the producer level. This post explains what data contracts are, how to implement them with modern tooling, and why they are foundational to reliable AI and analytics infrastructure.
