Approaches to building your data mesh
Depending on the current stage of the analytics system, you could choose from two broad approaches to building your data mesh – a green-field approach or a surround approach.
If your business is at Stage 1 or 2 of data analytics maturity and you currently don’t have much data but see potential growth coming in the future, use the green-field approach where you start with a clean slate, describe your domains and products, and link them together in a data mesh. You then migrate all existing data from your current analytical system into this new data mesh, distributing the data to the domains and the products it belongs to:
Figure 2.10 – Green-field data mesh implementation
If your business is at Stage 3 or Stage 4 of data maturity, then it will be difficult to start from scratch. Many stakeholders might be dependent on the analytics produced by the central analytics system. In this case, you should...
