From Schema Checks to Governance: A Practical Path

Many teams start with schema-only validation for payload shape. It helps, but orchestration issues still slip through.

A pragmatic path to governance:

1. Discover contracts from traces to reflect reality
2. Add ServiceSpec pre/post conditions for semantics
3. Add FlowSpec temporal/causal/DAG rules for orchestration

See how this aligns with our solution: Microservice Governance.