Tag: Data Mesh

I love the promise of data mesh: push data ownership to the edges, let domain teams ship data as products, and watch the organization move faster. But here’s the unglamorous truth we keep repeating in classrooms and boardrooms: a mesh without strong, distributed data and analytics governance is just a tangle. Autonomy without agreed‑upon rules yields incompatible data products, brittle integrations, and an ever‑growing integration tax. Governance is not a bolt‑on—it’s the substrate that makes a mesh possible.

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