Introducing Data Mesh

Data Mesh is a design concept based on federated data and business domains. It applies product management thinking to data management with the outcome being Data Products. It’s technology agnostic and calls for a domain-centric organization with federated Data Governance. Data management and local governance are owned and implemented at the business domain level. Cross-cutting business domain policies are created by a federated governance team at a global level but executed locally by the domain teams. The business pain points Data Mesh focuses on are resolving organizational bottlenecks, data silos, data swamps, and alignment between business domains and Data Governance teams. The following is Dehghani’s definition of Data Mesh:

Data mesh is a decentralized sociotechnical approach to share, access, and manage analytical data in complex and large-scale environments within or across organizations.

In her book, Dehghani positions Data Mesh as...