Need to wrap my head around it a bit more, but one wonders if the Pact Broker (and the CLI tooling such as

can-i-deploy

could support these contracts with little to no change). We might need a data pipeline specific command to handle a longer lineage of data e.g. in the case of event sourced systems reprocessing old events, or data pipelines that need to handle multiple years of data evolutions (perhaps the

released

vs

deployed

semantics cover that scenario already)

Data lineage and traceability is a huge emerging space, and with recent advances in AI, companies are recognising that they need to organise the data they have to make it parseable. One of the big recent announcements in this space was Microsoft's [Fabric](https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-fabric), which (from what I can tell) is trying to provide an end-to-end offering covering the capabilities of data ingestion/processing (data factory), data warehousing (synapse) and data reporting (Power BI). There's a bit of a crowded OSS (and enterprise) collection of tools that help here, and it could be cool if Pact can help verify the glue between these tools.