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Starting a Data Mesh Project

Paul Andrew continues a series on data mesh:

A common question I get asked a lot when creating a data mesh architecture is where to start? The consultant in me defaults the answer to ‘it depends’, of course 

However, in this blog post I want to give a better answer based on my experience of working with various customers so far. As always, the usual caveats apply, I’m happy to go first when trying to define a starting point for our data mesh delivery and fully accept that parts of this are probably wrong. This is also founded in the knowledge that every customer I’ve worked with is different, with different priorities and very subjective views on why they even need a data mesh architecture. Not to mention various levels of data platform maturity.

Paul also includes some nice roadmap and architectural box-drawing diagrams, so check those out.