Off-Label Data Mesh: A Prescription for Healthier Data

Data mesh is a relatively recent architectural innovation, espoused as one of the best ways to fix analytic data. We renegotiate aged social conventions by focusing on treating data as a product, with a clearly defined data product owner, akin to that of any other product. In addition, we focus on building out a self-service platform with integrated governance, letting consumers safely access and use the data they need to solve their business problems.

Data mesh is prescribed as a solution for analytical data, so that conventionally analytical results (think weekly sales or monthly revenue reports) can be more accurately and predictably computed. But what about non-analytical business operations? Would they not also benefit from data products backed by self-service capabilities and dedicated owners? If you've ever provided a customer with an analytical report that differed from their operational conclusions, then this talk is for you.

Adam discusses the resounding successes he has seen from applying data mesh off-label to both analytical and operational domains. The key? Event streams. Well-defined, incrementally updating data products that can power both real-time and batch-based applications, providing a single source of data for a wide variety of application and analytical use cases. Adam digs into the common areas of success seen across numerous clients and customers and provides you with a set of practical guidelines for implementing your own minimally viable data mesh.

Finally, Adam covers the main social and technical hurdles that you'll encounter as you implement your own data mesh. Learn about important data use cases, data domain modeling techniques, self-service platforms, and building an iteratively successful data mesh.