DATA MESH IS NO LONGER A HYPE BUT A PRACTICAL REALITY

The German translation of Zhamak Dehghani’s groundbreaking book Data Mesh discretely testifies to a change. Data mesh is alive and well, but the hype around data mesh as a theory has been replaced by pragmatic implementation experiences.

Accordingly, there is a subtle, but significant, difference between the original, english-language version of Data Mesh and the German translation — when it comes to the status of data mesh itself.

In the preface by the translators, Simon Harrer and Jochen Christ reveals that the data mesh blog posts by Zhamak Dehghani were eye-opening for them: they are software developers, and as such they didn’t think much about data. However, Harrer and Christ understood, reading these posts, that data mesh was the next logical step in decentralizing software architecture altogether.

Accordingly, Harrer and Christ set out to implement the ideas put forward in the data mesh approach. They describe how they, as an independent developer team within an organization, build an architecture of domain specific data products on a distinct technology capable of making these data products consumable. They understand, that this approach can be adapted to the entire organization.

In the preface of the german translation, Harrer and Christ demonstrate that theoretical discussions can be turned into practical implementations and that you can succeed in actually creating a data mesh.