What is a data mesh?

Let's demystify the Data Mesh, going beyond the jargon.

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Dinuraj Sugumaran
June 14, 2023

Welcome to this week's Five Data Points.

I'm Dinuraj, and I want to share with you five interesting articles I've read this week that I believe will be valuable to you.

1 - An overview of the concept of data mesh

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Technology alone doesn’t make a data mesh. The shift to decentralized data pipelines and data warehouses requires cultural change within the organization.

What the Heck is a Data Mesh?!

2 - A company’s reflections on implementing data mesh

Building a data mesh to support an ecosystem of data products at Adevinta

3 - The contra opinion on data mesh

Six Reasons Why Data Mesh Will Fail

4 - How to be a great data engineer

Becoming a Data Engineering Force Multiplier

5 - An opinion on how software is developed today and tomorrow

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a large portion of real-world problems have the property that it is significantly easier to collect the data than to explicitly write the program

Software 2.0

I hope these articles enriched your thinking with fresh perspectives and deeper insight. Let me know if any of the articles especially resonate with you, or you have topics that you want explored further.

If you found any value in this at all, do pass it along to your friends and colleagues who you think might benefit from it.

Thanks for joining me on this journey of expanding our knowledge about data. I'll see you again next week with more to learn.

Dinuraj Sugumaran