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Data Mesh
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Data Mesh

by Zhamak Dehghani
March 2022
Beginner to intermediate
384 pages
10h 54m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
Audiobook available
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Part V. How to Get Started

A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.

Lao Tzu

We have both made it to the last part of this book. Well done!

Are you considering adopting data mesh for your organization or helping others to do so? Are you in a position to influence, lead, or manage the execution of data mesh? Do you need some help on how to approach such a transformation organizationally and where to get started?

If you answered yes to these questions, this part is for you.

I assume that you have a solid understanding of data mesh foundational principles from Part I and understand the motivation and objectives of data mesh from Part II.

Scope

Data mesh is an element of a data strategy that fosters a data-driven organization to get value from data at scale.

Execution of this strategy has multiple facets. It affects the teams, their accountability structure, and delineation of responsibilities between domains and platform teams. It influences the culture, how organizations value and measure their data-oriented success. It changes the operating model and how local and global decisions around data availability, security, and interoperability are made. It introduces a new architecture that supports a decentralized model of data sharing.

In this part of the book, I describe a high-level approach to start and guide the execution of this multifaceted change. In Chapter 15, “Strategy and Execution”, I introduce an evolutionary approach to adopt data mesh incrementally, ...

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