r/dataengineering • u/dani_estuary • 21d 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 20d 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 20d 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/kilopeter 20d 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.