Data engineering·Governance, privacy and meaning
the table has an owner, a documented schema, a freshness commitment and a stated audience, like an API rather than a by-product.
Data product
Also calleddata as a product
Treating a dataset as something built for consumers, with a contract, documentation, quality guarantees and someone accountable. The shift is from 'here is the output of our pipeline' to 'here is a thing you may depend on'. It is the unit of ownership that makes decentralised data teams workable, and adopting the phrase without the freshness commitment or the owner is the common way it becomes vocabulary rather than practice.