Data Mesh: The Balancing Act of Centralization and Decentralization

Nuances and considerations for implementing data mesh

A data mesh architecture distributes data ownership across domain teams, with federated governance and decentralized data products. Data mesh contrasts from other data architectures because it’s highly decentralized: distributed as opposed to centralized.

Observations

Many large enterprises that I talk to study data mesh. They find the scaling model of teams taking…