Data Mesh
A decentralized data architecture where each domain team owns and publishes its data as a product. Shifts responsibility from a central data team to domain teams.
What is Data Mesh?
A decentralized data architecture where each domain team owns and publishes its data as a product. Shifts responsibility from a central data team to domain teams.
Data Mesh is a advanced concept that sits in the Stream & Batch Processing area of system design. Engineers reach for it whenever they need to reason about real-world trade-offs in that space — not just for textbook correctness, but because real production systems at companies like Netflix, Amazon, and Google make these decisions every day.
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