Reviewed by Aditya Kumar · Last reviewed 2026-03-24
Centralized rules, regional execution. (1) RULES—Define in config (Great Expectations, Soda) versioned in Git. (2) REGIONAL EXECUTION—Run checks per region (Lambda, Spark) against regional data; report to central dashboard. (3) CROSS-REGION—Compare aggregates, checksums for...
Red Flag: Single-region solution for multi-region. Pro-Move: 'We use Soda Core with regional runners; centralized dashboard; weekly cross-region reconciliation for compliance datasets.'
Centralized rules, regional execution. (1) RULES—Define in config (Great Expectations, Soda) versioned in Git. (2) REGIONAL EXECUTION—Run checks per region (Lambda, Spark) against regional data; report to central dashboard. (3) CROSS-REGION—Compare aggregates, checksums for replicated data. (4) ALERTING—Slack/PagerDuty with severity; escalation. (5) SLAs—Per-region SLAs in Grafana. SCALABILITY: Rules as code; deploy via GitOps. COST: Regional compute; central dashboard; reconcile only critical datasets.
Red Flag: Single-region solution for multi-region. Pro-Move: 'We use Soda Core with regional runners; centralized dashboard; weekly cross-region reconciliation for compliance datasets.'
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