# How (Not) to Build Datasets and Consume Data at Your Company

DevFeed: [How (Not) to Build Datasets and Consume Data at Your Company](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/how-not-to-build-datasets-and-consume-data-at-your-company-2047.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://developers.soundcloud.com/blog//how-not-to-build-datasets-and-consume-data-at-your-company>)

Published: 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [SoundCloud Backstage Blog](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/soundcloud-backstage-blog.md>)

Topics: [datasets](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/datasets.md>), [data](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/data.md>), [Data Management](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/data-management.md>), [data-architecture](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/data-architecture.md>)

Tags: [analytics](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/analytics.md>), [architecture](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/architecture.md>), [blog](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/blog.md>), [blog-post](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/blog-post.md>), [data](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/data.md>), [data-management](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/data-management.md>), [datasets](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/datasets.md>), [engineering](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/engineering.md>)

## AI overview

This SoundCloud engineering blog post explains how published datasets can be built, provided, and consumed across engineering teams. It discusses data ownership, agreed dataset shapes, encapsulation of domain details, slowly changing dimension tables, and examples involving tracks and rights holders.

## Source excerpt

The topic of datasets is not new, and they have been successfully used at SoundCloud for analytics purposes for a long time. In this blog...