Engineering Data

Data about Data

Audit Trail

Maintain history about how this particular data set is being manipulated.

Answer CRUD questions.

When was it created?
When was it updated?
When was it deleted?

Production and Staging

Would you ever need to "test" your data model somewhere?
How would you build a staging environment?

Data about Data

How many are created/updated/deleted over a certain time period?

Monitoring/Alerts

How big is your data?
At what rate is your data growing?
What are your backup plans?