No, DaC is not just versioning data! It’s applying the whole software engineering toolchain to data. For that, we need principles. This post is part of a small series beginning with: Data as Code — Achieving Zero Production Defects for Analytics Datasets. Image by Sven Balnojan. Data as Code is a simple concept. Just like Infrastructure as Code. It just says “Treat your data as code”. And yet, after IaC appeared on the ThoughtWorks Radar in 2011, it still took roughly 10 years to “settle in” and is still on an uneasy spot where IaC advocates feel they need to remind people […]