data-mesh-patterns

When to Activate

• Organization has 5+ business domains each producing and consuming data
• Central data team is a bottleneck (teams wait weeks for new datasets)
• Data quality issues are blamed on central platform, not producing teams
• Designing a new data platform for a scaling engineering organization
• Migrating from centralized data warehouse to decentralized data products
• Implementing data contracts between producer and consumer teams
• Evaluating Delta Lake, Apache Iceberg, Trino, or OpenLineage

Data Mesh Principles (Zhamak Dehghani)

1. Domain Ownership

Each business domain team owns, operates, and is accountable for their data products — end to end.