11 Distributing data

This chapter covers

  • Sharing data through an API
  • Sharing data for bulk copy
  • Data sharing best practices

We’ve come a long way in this book: we’ve covered data ingestion and storage, all the different workloads a data platform runs, and multiple aspects of data governance. This final chapter is all about the output of our data platform or how data leaves our systems to be consumed by users or other systems. Figure 11.1 highlights this last focus area.

Figure 11.1 Data distribution covers the output of our data platform and how data leaves our system.

We’ll start by talking about data distribution in general and then some ...

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