Summary

In this chapter, we saw various elements of a data mesh strategy. We covered cultural, organizational, and technical changes that will need to be adopted to build a solid data strategy. Building a comprehensive, forward-looking data strategy will prove critical to building a collaborative data analytics system using a data mesh architecture. It is very important that a company spends a good amount of time and resources on building this strategy before moving forward with the implementation. Moving from a centralized data analytics structure to a decentralized, collaborative structure is a cultural change. Many companies employ a change management process by seeking help from external consulting companies to help employees adopt the change. Understand your current data maturity and select the appropriate strategy to implement a data mesh.

In the next chapter, we will understand how a data mesh architecture can be deployed using Microsoft Azure. Microsoft has built multiple...