Quality Suite for Events

Concepts covered: paQualitySuite, paFivePillars

The exercise puts the lesson into a single concrete deliverable. The target is a customer events table at a SaaS company that loads roughly two million events per day across four event types. The table feeds a dashboard, a churn model, and a billing report. The deliverable is a complete quality suite covering all five quality pillars: freshness, volume, distribution, schema, and lineage hint. The suite stays small enough to ship but covers the failure modes that have actually shown up in mature production systems. Two million events per day is roughly twenty-three per second, which is large enough that statistical checks are meaningful and small enough that the warehouse cost of running the checks is negligible. The shape of the table is representative of the most common high-volume analyt

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