Schema Drift Ruined Their Pipeline | Here's How to Prevent It

Опубликовано: 28 Апрель 2026
на канале: Chris Gambill | Data Engineering Strategy
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Your pipeline didn’t break… until it did.
No error, no code change — just blank dashboards and a silent upstream schema change.
This is schema drift, and in this episode of Data Disasters & Definitions, I’ll show you what it is, how it breaks pipelines, and what real-world strategies you can use to prevent it.

🎯 In this episode

What schema drift actually is

A real story of a pipeline silently breaking

5 ways to detect and prevent schema drift

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