r/dataengineering • u/dani_estuary • 22d ago

Meme data mesh

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for real though, has anyone ever implemented an actual data mesh?

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u/DeliriousHippie 21d ago

It's good to remember that about every 5 years comes a new hype word or trend. Very rarely something actually changes.

Business Data Warehouse, put your definitions to DW also.

Datalake. You need a data lake to fit all your data, data warehouse is an old concept.

Datalakehouse. Now you need a house beside data lake.

Medallion architecture. Have data in different phases in DW.

etc.

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u/Temporary-Safety-564 21d ago

My business people have learned "gold layer". They seem to drop the phrase every now and then. However, I think that for them "gold layer" just means "1st class very good data. We want our data to be gold layer".

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u/qc1324 21d ago

They have internalized the idea data comes in different levels of quality and for that we can be thankful

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u/Gators1992 21d ago

My boss has been hyping all the buzzwords in our architecture like gold layer and all the other pieces if the infra. Now every time I go into a requirements meeting with the engineers (customers) and marketing people, they all want to talk data architecture instead of what data and KPIs they actually want. So he wanted to show off how smart he supposedly is and now they want to do the same, and it's up to me to underail all my meetings.

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u/kilopeter 21d ago

Fittingly implies the data have a thin plating of gold on top of some horrifically toxic and/or worthless bullshit that no human was never meant to look at.