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-> Please feel free to [message me directly on LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/mafreeman2/) if you have any feedback, as I would love to implement it during our final round of edits!
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 Welcome to the code repository for the hands-on coding exercise within ***Chapter 7: Implementing Data Contracts***, from the the O'reilly book ***Data Contracts: Developing Production Grade Pipelines at Scale***.
 
 In this repo we will introduce you how to implement the data contract architecture end-to-end using fully open-source tools, as well as walk you through the workflow of handling data contract violations. This is a compliment to the book, but you can also go through this end-to-end with repo alone.