If you change the sequence, you change the system. Designing Gold → Silver → Bronze → Ingestion—with the semantic model as the contract and the lake/warehouse as implementation—doesn’t just alter build tasks. It reshapes how data mesh and traditional architectures behave. The same platform primitives are available to both, but the incentives shift: domains and central teams stop arguing about “which pipeline stage we’re in” and align on “which product contract we’re honoring.”
Below is how the flip lands in each world—what truly changes, what stubbornly stays the same, and what actually gets better.
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