Data Mesh in Action

About The Book

Revolutionize the way your organization approaches data with a data mesh! This new decentralized architecture outpaces monolithic lakes and warehouses and can work for a company of any size.

Data Mesh in Action reveals how this groundbreaking architecture looks for both small startups and large enterprises. You'll see a data mesh in action as you explore both an extended case study and multiple real-world examples. As you go, you'll be expertly guided through discussions around Socio-Technical Architecture and Domain-Driven Design with the goal of building a sleek data-as-a-product system.

About the technology

A data mesh decentralizes data ownership and keeps it close to decision makers and domain experts. The results are clear: better description and structuring, easier scaling, and removing the bottlenecks of centralized monolithic data architecture. Best of all, you won't need any new technology—his book shows you how to immediately start implementing a data mesh with flexible processes and organizational change.

- Move from your current data architecture to a data mesh

- Identify data domains, and decompose an organization into smaller, manageable domains

- Set up the central governance and local governance levels over data

- Balance responsibilities between the two levels of governance

- Establish a platform that allows efficient connection of distributed data products and automated governance

Audience

For anyone who works with data. This tool-agnostic book requires no specific software stack or choice of data platform.