The Cool Kids Corner:
Hello! I’m Mark Horseman, and welcome to The Cool Kids Corner. This is my monthly check-in to share with you the people and ideas I encounter as a data evangelist with DATAVERSITY. This month, we’re talking about data mesh. Data mesh represents a federated model of running your data program. While the term is largely focused on architecture, it requires a federated approach to a lot of tenets of Data Management, including Data Governance. This federation involves a lot of folks fluent in Data iraq whatsapp number data Management in an organization. The larger the federation, the more folks who need to be adept at telling a story with data. So, let’s dive into how a data mesh initiative is an immersion program for data literacy, and ultimately, we’ll see what the cool kids are saying.
The data mesh is an architecture implementation that democratizes the management of data by node, and each node is managed or curated by a team that has subject matter expertise. As you can imagine, this starts to work out a lot like The United Federation of Planets in Star Trek. Each node can be represented by a member power, all coming together under the federation’s goals of cooperation, development, and exploration.
With this type of model, each node requires its own governance structures and processes. While you can have some variability between nodes, the required Data Management practices at each node require the folks managing the nodes to have significant knowledge about the data therein. The more nodes you have, the more people you have across your organization who are immersed in Data Management. This, in turn, creates an opportunity for collaboration, encouraging each node to give help and pointers, fostering a community of practice within the organization that provides for consistency in the federated model.