Front matter
foreword
preface
acknowledgments
about this book
about the authors
about the cover illustration
Part 1. Foundations
1 The what and why of the data mesh
1.1 Data mesh
1.2 Why the data mesh?
Alternatives
Data warehouses and data lakes inside the data mesh
Data mesh benefits
1.3 Use case: A snow-shoveling business
1.4 Data mesh principles
Domain-oriented decentralized data ownership and architecture
Data as a product
Federated computational governance
Self-serve data infrastructure as a platform
1.5 Back to snow shoveling
1.6 Socio-technical architecture
Team topologies