Cheat sheetDS-03

Data Mesh

Distributed & Scalable / Data Mesh

Decentralize analytical data to the domains that produce it, served as products, on a self-serve platform, under federated automated governance.

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Domain ownershipProducing domains own their analytical data — no central bottleneck team.
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Data as a productDiscoverable, addressable, trustworthy, self-describing, with SLAs and a consumer focus.
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Self-serve platformShared tooling lets domains build and serve products without specialist engineers.
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Federated governanceGlobal interoperable standards encoded and enforced computationally on the platform.
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Ask: who produces this data, and could they serve it as a product? Give them platform tooling and automated global rules — not a central gatekeeper.

Own itThe Orders domain publishes a versioned, documented 'orders' product with a known SLA.
GuardrailsGovernance mandates a standard schema + access policy, enforced automatically at publish time.
principle 1: domain ownership     -> producers own data
principle 2: data as a product   -> discoverable + SLA
principle 3: self-serve platform -> autonomy via tooling
principle 4: federated governance-> global rules, automated
data-meshdomain-ownershipdata-productself-serve-platformfederated-governance
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