Data Mesh Architecture: From Theory to Practice

Abstract

Data mesh is an emerging decentralized approach to managing and generating value from analytical enterprise data at scale. It shifts the ownership of the data to the business domains closest to the data, promotes sharing and managing data as autonomous products, and uses a federated and auto-mated data governance model. This short tutorial introduces data mesh architecture to practitioners and researchers in the software architecture community. First, we present the key components of a data mesh architecture and discuss critical design decisions that should be made when designing and implementing data meshes in organizations. Then, we present the findings from the data mesh case studies we conducted at the three organizations in the Netherlands and Germany.