The Open Subsurface Data Universe (OSDU) is a solid set of service contracts for
the energy industry: Storage, Search, Dataset, File, Workflow, Legal, Schema,
Entitlements. It powers real data platforms and real subsurface workflows.
But there is a gap between the contracts and the day-to-day reality of anyone
who writes code against them. A real deployment means Kubernetes, OpenSearch,
Redis, PostgreSQL, and an OIDC provider. That is reasonable for a platform team.
It is a heavy way to ...