Engineering Data Mesh in Azure Cloud

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Understanding Data-Sharing Topologies in a Data Mesh

In my experience of helping Microsoft customers implement a data mesh, the part that concerns the customers the most is data sharing. The concept of in-place sharing is completely new to most customers, and they wonder how it will actually work. In-place sharing is a way of sharing data with others without moving the data from its source system. Well, it’s important to understand that while in-place data sharing is key to avoiding data movement through the mesh, it’s not mandatory. So, when do we use in-place sharing, and when do we move data? Are there any other ways of sharing data? And when should we use which sharing technique?

This chapter will answer all these questions. It will lay ...