Overview
Data mesh is a new approach to data management, based on decentralizing and distributing data ownership across domain-specific teams, such as marketing, customer service, or sales. By treating data as a product, instead of a by-product, data mesh architecture gives individual teams more ownership over their domain data sets while ensuring seamless sharing and governance. The data mesh approach breaks down data silos and eliminates operational bottlenecks associated with traditional storage systems, such as a data lake with a central data team. As a result, data consumers can more easily access and use data across the organization. Key principles of the data mesh paradigm are domain-driven data ownership, data as a product, self-serve data platform, and federated computational governance.