Data Mesh Newsletter #014

All Things Food Edition

The quick bit:

0) If you haven’t checked out Nick Heudecker’s interviews with vendors, I highly suggest it. Nick has some skills in peeling away the layers of the vendor onion to get at the heart of their Data Mesh alignment.

Data Mesh Content Unzipped

HelloFresh’s Journey to a Decentralized Data Mesh

Host: Dave Vellante, theCUBE Guests: Clemence Chee, Christophe Sawade

Dave Vellante prefaces with HelloFresh’s convergent thinking towards Data Mesh wrought from hyper-growth and monolithic build-out pain points. The discovery of Zhamak’s papers materialized their journey towards the four principles. Notable observations were HelloFresh’s organizational commitment to Data Mesh in a phased approach that is still ongoing.

The Endless Data Buffet

Author: Colleen Tartow

The author explains Data Mesh and product thinking through a (champagne) buffet and it is awesome in its delivery through common experience and its ability to make you hungry! Andrew thinks there should be more effective analogies like this that everyone can relate to describe Data Mesh principles.

FAIR Guiding Principles and Data Mesh

Author: Jeroen Angenent

The author compares FAIR and Data Mesh principles and enumerates the common elements between the two with the former fleshing out guidelines that may prove useful. If you are familiar with FAIR principles, this is another source worthy of review.

Data as a product vs data products. What are the differences?

Author: Xavier Gumara Rigol

Data products and ‘data as a product’ are often conflated. The author attempts to distinguish the two terms and follows up with examples.

How DeliveryHero Uses Data To Deliver Meals

Interviewer: Bruno Aziza, Guest: Matteo Fava

Those who use Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and/or have already came from a shop that employs DDD/microservices may find this interview worthwhile.

Upcoming Meetups / Zhamak Stuff

DML Meetups (10pm IST / 6:30pm CEST / 12:30pm EDT / 9:30am PDT):

Sept 30: Adevinta

Oct 7: Flexport

October speaking slots open! Contact Scott Hirleman if you want to share your journey!

Other Data Mesh Meetups/Webinars/Training

Data Platform in a mesh architecture webinar; Zhamak and Emily Gorcenski (Thoughtworks); Oct 14 at 5:30pm CEST / 9:0pm IST / 11:30am EDT / 8:30am PDT

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