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Data Quality and Schema Evolution

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You're designing a high-volume data lake pipeline and want a clean approach for handling changing upstream schemas without breaking downstream consumers. You also need a practical way to catch bad data early and keep raw and curated layers usable over time.

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How do you ensure data quality and schema evolution in a high-volume data lake architecture?