You Can't Govern What You Can't Name

Governance is downstream of a name

Last week, I wrote:

Observable Run - every execution leaves a durable, queryable record of what ran, with what, and how it ended.

I called it a pattern.
It is also a door.

Behind it is the question every data team eventually gets asked - by an auditor, a regulator, a new VP, or a 2:00 AM incident:

Can you prove it?

You can describe what your pipelines do. Yo…