‘Data Mesh is Dead — It Just Doesn’t Know It’

At a recently concluded tech conference in Bengaluru, the discussions centred around how data mesh is helping democratise data. Although it may have sounded like a new concept to amateur attendees at the conference, it is far from that. In fact, in social media circles, talks are on about data mesh already being dead! The then principal consultant at ThoughtWorks, Zhamak Dehghani, first defined the concept of data mesh in 2019. Data mesh is a new approach for analytical data management based on a distributed architecture. It enables end-users to access and query data where it lives without needing to be transported to a centralised architecture like a data lake or data warehouse. In this approach, data is treated as a product and owned by the teams that most intimately know and consume