As Data Mesh matures, enterprises are struggling to manage their growing federated data product ecosystem. How can this rapidly evolving ecosystem be managed? — The Unfulfilled Promise of Enterprise Data Management We all know that data volumes, variety, and complexity are increasing exponentially. Yet, our current approach — centralized data management — is failing. Enterprises are offered the illusion of greater control, yet see slow, inflexible, and bureaucratic processes that hinder innovation.

The journey to an enterprise Data Mesh can be challenging. But it can be made a bit easier and quicker by using a practical Data Mesh roadmap — Towards a Practical Data Mesh Roadmap Implementing an enterprise Data Mesh is neither trivial nor intuitive. The depth, breath, and speed of change across several dimensions — technology, organization, and governance — makes an enterprise’s data mesh journey both complex and daunting.

Accurate, available, and consistently interoperable climate data is crucial to addressing our global climate crisis. Here is how OS-Climate is using Data Mesh to make climate data easy to find, consume, share, and govern. OS-Climate is Tackling the Climate and ESG Data Challenge OS-Climate (OS-C) is applying Open Source capabilities to help organizations effectively leverage ESG data. Using this…

Your operating model is the primary indicator of the speed and success of your data mesh journey. Here is what you need to know to setup an operating model for data products in your enterprise data mesh. Towards an Effective Data Product Operating Model The organizational changes required to implement a data mesh are harder to address…

The success of your data mesh journey will be dictated by your data product team structure rather than your technology choices. Here is what you need to know to setup your data product teams. — Designing an Effective Data Product Team I have found that the organizational changes are the hardest part of an enterprise data mesh journey. And unless you plan for them and respect the inherent challenges in changing people’s behaviour, your journey will be long and gruelling.

Data Products are the foundational building block of an enterprise Data Mesh. But what exactly is a Data Product, how do they work, how can they be identified, and how can they be built quickly? Making Data Easy to Find, Share, Consume, and Govern I think of Data Products by the value they provide to an organization: Data Products…

How the Data Mesh / Data Product Security Pattern ensures that an enterprise Data Mesh and its Data Products are safe and secure — Data Mesh / Data Product Security Pattern Data is the foundational building block of a modern enterprise. But far too often we see headlines highlighting the catastrophic consequences caused by gaps in security practices. These security gaps come in many flavours from leaky perimeters to errant employees and everything in between.

Cloud migration in enterprises has been far too slow, costly, and complex. The Data Mesh Cloud Migration pattern shows how to accelerate your cloud migration. — Data Mesh Cloud Migration Pattern Cloud technology is ubiquitous. It is hidden behind each mobile phone app, and it touches and stores every email, message, and social interaction we have. …

The Data Mesh Operability Pattern helps us understand the operating characteristics of an enterprise Data Mesh. Here is how this pattern works, and why it is so important for the stability, resilience, and performance of your enterprise Data Mesh. Data Product Operability Pattern Instability in a production environment impacts an enterprise’s customers, developer productivity…