Notes from Industry

Data Domains — Where do I start?

Strategic path towards designing an enterprise-scale data mesh

Piethein Strengholt
14 min readDec 15, 2021

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In all data mesh discussions I have with enterprises the subject of data domains draws most attention. Customers find domain-oriented data ownership the hardest part of data mesh. Often, there is a fundamental lack of understanding of Domain-Driven Design (DDD). Other data practitioners find the conceptual notions of DDD too difficult to grasp or project examples that come from software architecture or…

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