Data Mesh: Moving Away From Monolithic & Centralised Data Lakes

“My ask before reading on is to momentarily suspend the deep assumptions and biases that the current paradigm of traditional data platform architecture has established; Be open to the possibility of moving beyond the monolithic and centralised data lakes to an intentionally distributed data mesh architecture; Embrace the reality of ever-present, ubiquitous and distributed nature of data,” said Zhamak Dehghani, currently the director of emerging technologies at Thoughtworks. Data mesh, a decentralised data architecture, marks an architectural and organisational shift in the way enterprises manage big data. Data mesh As per Zhamak, the planning and building process of data and intelligence platforms can be divided into three generations. In the first generation, organisations