Your Data Mesh Can’t Be Self-Serve Just for Developers

A centrally-provided platform must support coders and analysts alike

Many leaders of data organizations that I meet are considering a data mesh. The approach, increasingly popular among large enterprises, includes decentralizing control of data and analytics to individual business teams, or domains. Some functions remain centrally managed, including what the data mesh community calls a self-serve data platform.

I appreciate the motivations behind a data mesh and think it is ideal for some organizations. However, I feel …

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