#5 Data Virtualization and Data Mesh, Spec Data Products, and Can You Keep Your Existing Architecture – Mesh Musings #2

Provided as a free resource by DataStax https://www.datastax.com/products/datastax-astra?utm_source=DataMeshRadio (AstraDB) Scott gives some helpful context around 3 separate data mesh topics: Why Data Virtualization is not a good fit for creating and managing your data products in data mesh A reply to a wonderful article by Matthew Darwin (link below) asking if we can keep our existing data platform / architecture and only decentralize our data ownership - surprise, surprise, Scott argues that it isn't that simple Introducing the concept of a speculative data product to solicit feedback in a bit of internal data product marketing Matthew Darwin article: https://medium.com/slalom-data-analytics/data-mesh-is-the-argument-a-strawman-3cffaf55ce5e (https://medium.com/slalom-data-analytics/data-mesh-is-the-argument-a-strawman-3cffaf55ce5e) Intuit article referenced in spec data product segment: https://medium.com/intuit-engineering/intuits-data-mesh-strategy-778e3edaa017 (https://medium.com/intuit-engineering/intuits-data-mesh-strategy-778e3edaa017) Data Mesh Radio is hosted by Scott Hirleman. If you want to connect with Scott, reach out to him at community at datameshlearning.com or on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/scotthirleman/ (https://www.linkedin.com/in/scotthirleman/) If you want to learn about and/or join the Data Mesh Learning Community, see here: https://datameshlearning.com/community/ (https://datameshlearning.com/community/) If you want to be a guest or give feedback (suggestions for topics, comments, etc.), please see https://docs.google.com/document/d/1WkXLhSH7mnbjfTChD0uuYeIF5Tj0UBLUP4Jvl20Ym10/edit?usp=sharing (here) All music used this episode created by Lesfm (intro includes slight edits by Scott Hirleman): https://pixabay.com/users/lesfm-22579021/ (https://pixabay.com/users/lesfm-22579021/) Data Mesh Radio is brought to you as a community resource by DataStax. Check out their high-scale, multi-region database offering (w/ lots of great APIs) and use code DAAP500 for a free $500