Common Data Mesh Misconceptions
There are a number of common misconceptions with data mesh. We provide some overviews and rebuttals at the links below.
Data mesh pillars = data mesh.
There is a lot of content that specifically talks about data mesh as if the pillars Zhamak has laid out are a data mesh rather than the approach needed to create and manage a data mesh.
Data mesh creates data siloes.
Not if you make your data products discoverable and incentivize consumption of data products.
Data mesh is a technology or architecture-focused paradigm.
Distribution of architecture is one of the four pillars. So maybe 25% correct?
X vendor sells a data mesh.
See above. You can’t sell an organizational process. Vendors can sell a data mesh platform but anyone saying they sell a data mesh or a data mesh solution is overmarketing.
Data mesh is a destination, not a journey.
There is an assumption that many people have fully deployed Zhamak’s vision. Or that you need to figure everything out first and deploy in one go, flip the switch. It’s a journey. It’s why we call them user journey stories. You have to figure out what works for you as you go along and no two data mesh journeys will be the same.
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