Data Mesh Quotes

“Despite the relentless effort to remove coordination and synchronization in core technologies, we have, for the most part, neglected organizational and architectural coordination. As a result, no matter how fast our computer systems run, achieving outcomes have fallen behind coordinating activities of teams and humans.”
― Zhamak Dehghani, Data Mesh: Delivering Data-Driven Value at Scale

“As Fred Brooks laid out in his widely popular paper, “No Silver Bullet—Essence and Accident in Software Engineering”, there are two types of complexity when building software systems. First, we have the essential complexity that is essential and inherent to the problem space. This is business and domain complexity. Second, there is accidental complexity: the complexity that we—engineers, architects, and designers—create in our solutions. Accidental complexity can and should be reduced.”
― Zhamak Dehghani, Data Mesh: Delivering Data-Driven Value at Scale

“Data product owners are the long-term owners of the domains’ data products. They intrinsically care about the longevity and success of their data product as a member of the mesh. They have accountability for the security, quality, and integrity of their data. Given the guiding principle of executing decisions locally, the data product owners are ultimately accountable for making sure the global governance decisions are executed at the level of every single data product. Early buy-in and contribution of domains to define the global policies is crucial in adoption of them.”
― Zhamak Dehghani, Data Mesh: Delivering Data-Driven Value at Scale

“if the goal of the system becomes “the number of data products,” early in the development of the mesh, this leverage point results in a focus on generating data, and not necessarily generating value from the data.”
― Zhamak Dehghani, Data Mesh: Delivering Data-Driven Value at Scale

“What I like to add to this description is the outcome. The domain has a specific business objective and an outcome it is optimizing for.”
― Zhamak Dehghani, Data Mesh: Delivering Data-Driven Value at Scale

“There is a culture that obsessively runs experiments, observes the results, analyzes the data, makes sense of it, learns from it, and adapts.”
― Zhamak Dehghani, Data Mesh: Delivering Data-Driven Value at Scale

“How to Move Beyond a Monolithic Data Lake to a Distributed Data Mesh”,”
― Zhamak Dehghani, Data Mesh: Delivering Data-Driven Value at Scale