A Prequel to Data Mesh

My personal take on justifying the existence of Data Mesh

A senior stakeholder at one my projects mentioned that they wanted to decentralise their data platform architecture and democratise data across the organisation.

When I heard the words ‘decentralised data architecture’, I was left utterly confused at first! In my then limited experience as a Data Engineer, I had only come across centralised data architectures and they seemed to be working very well. So, I was left wondering what was it that we wanted to solve using a decentralised data architecture? Or were we creating a new problem that did not ever exist in the first place? ..

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