Soda Core
Soda Core is an open-source data quality testing framework that enables developers and data engineers to validate, monitor, and improve the quality of data in their data pipelines. It allows users to define data quality checks using SQL or YAML configurations and integrates with various data sources like Snowflake, BigQuery, and PostgreSQL. The tool helps detect issues such as missing values, duplicates, schema changes, and custom business logic violations in datasets.
Developers should use Soda Core when building or maintaining data pipelines to ensure data reliability and prevent downstream errors in analytics or machine learning models. It is particularly valuable in ETL/ELT processes, data warehousing projects, and data migration scenarios where consistent data quality is critical for business decisions. Learning Soda Core helps automate data validation, reduce manual checks, and integrate quality assurance into CI/CD workflows for data operations.