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Managing Data as a Product
Managing Data as a Product

Managing Data as a Product: Design and build data-product-centered socio-technical architectures

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Managing Data as a Product

From Data as a Byproduct to Data as a Product

In this book, we will explore how to transition from managing data merely as a byproduct that supports applications to managing data as a product in its own right. Before tackling the various aspects that contribute to this paradigm shift, it’s crucial to understand why managing data as a product is important and how this practice enables us to surpass the limits of today’s data platforms.

In this chapter, we will explore the history of monolithic data platforms, which have characterized the evolution of data management over the last 30 years. We will seek to understand the common problems that make them incapable of sustainably managing the accidental complexity they generate as they grow. Finally, we will see why addressing the fundamental issues, instead of merely treating surface-level symptoms, requires more than just technological innovations. It calls for a paradigm shift that leads us toward more sustainable socio...

Reviewing the history of monolithic data platforms

Managing the substantial amount of data that’s generated by every company daily is a complex endeavor. It calls for dedicated resources and technological support in the form of a specific data platform.

Nowadays, data platforms often fall short in delivering the expected value compared to the investments made, primarily due to organizations’ inability to sustainably manage the complexity they generate over time.

System complexity

The complexity of a system is determined by the number of its components multiplied by the number of correlations between them. A database with 10,000 tables is not much more complex than a database with 100 tables if the tables themselves are not correlated. Each table tells its own story. It can be manipulated without concern for the meaning of other tables and the potential impacts that the executed action may have on them. However, the complexity between the two databases is very...

Understanding why monolithic data platforms fail

If we look at the evolution of data management over the last 40 years, we’ll see a story of incredible technological revolutions and just as many project failures. At the beginning of this chapter, we mentioned that the main reason for these failures is the complexity generated by data management platforms, and this complexity grows approximately quadratically with the size of the platform. Therefore, these are not typical project failures as we are accustomed to understanding them. Data platforms rarely fail before their launch, never making it into production. Instead, they often experience failures related to their ability to evolve and survive over time. Platforms don’t fail immediately but over time, as they struggle to deliver the expected value in proportion to the constantly increasing maintenance costs they generate.

Like a Jenga tower becoming increasingly unstable as more pieces are added until it collapses...

Exploring why we need to manage data as a product

To escape the quagmire we find ourselves in, it is necessary to radically change the mental model we use to approach data management and, consequently, the organizational structures and associated operational practices. It’s a systemic change – a paradigm shift in data management practice.

As we’ve seen in the previous sections, attempts to address these problems have been predominantly cosmetic, not radical. We’ve tried to modify the system tactically, reacting to surface-level problems as they arise.

In system thinking, a system can be changed from the outside by acting on parts of it where small changes can lead to significant and lasting changes over time; these parts are called leverage points. Donella Meadows, a renowned researcher in this field, has classified possible leverage points into 12 categories, ranking them by effectiveness. It’s not necessary to delve into the details of each...

Summary

There is no doubt about the importance that data holds for organizations today to compete in the market. However, how we traditionally manage data has led to the construction of monolithic platforms unable to survive the complexity they generate.

Technological innovations have helped us solve many problems related to data management over time, but not the root causes of these problems. With each new generation of data platforms, the same issues have always resurfaced.

In this chapter, we saw how a paradigm shift in data management is necessary to make our platforms sustainable over time – a paradigm shift centered around the idea of treating data as a product and building modular platforms capable of governing the intrinsic complexity they generate without collapsing. It is a systemic transformation that touches on different levels of the organization. Throughout, we have shown the desired transformation required for each level, from mental models to operating...

Further reading

For more information on the topics that were covered in this chapter, please take a look at the following resources:

  • An Architecture for a Business and Information System, by B. Devlin and Paul T. (1988): https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/An-Architecture-for-a-Business-and-Information-Devlin-Murphy/c22ce1eeafb01f0682e194a2a22349aa141b78f6
  • Building the Data Warehouse, by W. H. Inmon (1992): https://www.amazon.com/Building-Data-Warehouse-W-Inmon/dp/0764599445
  • The Data Warehouse Toolkit: The Definitive Guide to Dimensional Modeling, by R. Kimball and Margy Ross (1996): https://www.amazon.com/Data-Warehouse-Toolkit-Definitive-Dimensional/dp/1118530802/
  • Data Lake Architecture: Designing the Data Lake and Avoiding the Garbage Dump, by W. H. Inmon (2016): https://www.amazon.com/Data-Lake-Architecture-Designing-Avoiding/dp/B01HN4JOPC/
  • The Modern Data Stack: Past, Present, and Future, by Tristan Handy (2020): https://www.getdbt.com/blog/future-of...
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Key benefits

  • Leverage data-as-product to unlock the modular platform potential and fix flaws in traditional monolithic architectures
  • Learn how to identify, implement, and operate data products throughout their life cycle
  • Design and execute a forward-thinking strategy to turn your data products into organizational assets
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Traditional monolithic data platforms struggle with scalability and burden central data teams with excessive cognitive load, leading to challenges in managing technological debt. As maintenance costs escalate, these platforms lose their ability to provide sustained value over time. With two decades of hands-on experience implementing data solutions and his pioneering work in the Open Data Mesh Initiative, Andrea Gioia brings practical insights and proven strategies for transforming how organizations manage their data assets. Managing Data as a Product introduces a modular and distributed approach to data platform development, centered on the concept of data products. In this book, you’ll explore the rationale behind this shift, understand the core features and structure of data products, and learn how to identify, develop, and operate them in a production environment. The book guides you through designing and implementing an incremental, value-driven strategy for adopting data product-centered architectures, including strategies for securing buy-in from stakeholders. Additionally, it explores data modeling in distributed environments, emphasizing its crucial role in fully leveraging modern generative AI solutions. By the end of this book, you’ll have gained a comprehensive understanding of product-centric data architecture and the essential steps needed to adopt this modern approach to data management.

Who is this book for?

If you’re an experienced data engineer, data leader, architect, or practitioner committed to reimagining your data architecture and designing one that enables your organization to get the most value from your data in a sustainable and scalable way, this book is for you. Whether you’re a staff engineer, product manager, or a software engineering leader or executive, you’ll find this book useful. Familiarity with basic data engineering principles and practices is assumed.

What you will learn

  • Overcome the challenges in scaling monolithic data platforms, including cognitive load, tech debt, and maintenance costs
  • Discover the benefits of adopting a data-as-a-product approach for scalability and sustainability
  • Navigate the complete data product lifecycle, from inception to decommissioning
  • Automate data product lifecycle management using a self-serve platform
  • Implement an incremental, value-driven strategy for transitioning to data-product-centric architectures
  • Optimize data modeling in distributed environments to enhance GenAI-based use cases

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Table of Contents

17 Chapters
Part 1: Data Products and the Power of Modular Architectures Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Chapter 1: From Data as a Byproduct to Data as a Product Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Chapter 2: Data Products Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Chapter 3: Data Product-Centered Architectures Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Part 2: Managing the Data Product Lifecycle Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Chapter 4: Identifying Data Products and Prioritizing Developments Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Chapter 5: Designing and Implementing Data Products Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Chapter 6: Operating Data Products in Production Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Chapter 7: Automating Data Product Lifecycle Management Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Part 3: Designing a Successful Data Product Strategy Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Chapter 8: Moving through the Adoption Journey Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Chapter 9: Team Topologies and Data Ownership at Scale Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Chapter 10: Distributed Data Modeling Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Chapter 11: Building an AI-Ready Information Architecture Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Chapter 12: Bringing It All Together Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Index Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Other Books You May Enjoy Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
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