# The Journey of Corpus

DevFeed: [The Journey of Corpus](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/the-journey-of-corpus-2167.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://developers.soundcloud.com/blog//the-journey-of-corpus>)

Published: 2021-04-29T00:00:00Z

Content type: article

Language: en

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

Topics: [data-governance](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/data-governance.md>), [BigQuery](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/bigquery.md>), [Data Quality](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/data-quality.md>), [Data Management](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/data-management.md>), [Amazon Redshift](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/amazon-redshift.md>), [datasets](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/datasets.md>), [data](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/data.md>)

Tags: [amazon-redshift](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/amazon-redshift.md>), [bigquery](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/bigquery.md>), [data](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/data.md>), [data-engineering](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/data-engineering.md>), [data-governance](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/data-governance.md>), [data-management](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/data-management.md>), [data-quality](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/data-quality.md>), [datasets](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/datasets.md>)

## AI overview

SoundCloud describes its effort to replace an outdated, poorly documented data warehouse and inconsistent ETL processes with Corpus, a centralized BigQuery project serving as a single source of truth. The Data Corpus team focuses on applying data governance to datasets critical for product and business decisions, including maintaining high data quality throughout the data lifecycle.

## Source excerpt

It seems like a simple enough concept: You take data from how your users interact with your product, and you use it to make business and...