168: Decoding Data Mesh: Principles, Practices, and Real-World Applications Featuring Paolo Platter, Zhamak Dehghani, and Melissa Logan

Highlights from this week’s conversation include:

• Defining data mesh (6:37)
• Addressing the scale of organizational complexity and usage (9:04)
• The shift from monolithic to microservices (12:24)
• The sociological structure in data mesh (13:59)
• Data product generation and sharing in data mesh (17:27)
• Data Mesh: Simplifying Data Work (24:09)
• Getting Started with Data Mesh (29:14)
• Building products for Data Mesh (36:42)
• Building a customizable and extensible platform to shape data practice (39:28)
• The characteristics of a data product (48:40)
• Defining what a data product is not (50:45)
• The origin of the term "mesh" in data mesh (53:32)

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