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What is a Data Mesh?
A data mesh is an organizational framework for collecting, managing, and sharing data across the enterprise. It is a method of data management that empowers domain experts to own the data they create and make it available to consumers across business lines. Put more...
What is Metadata, and How Does It Work?
What is Metadata? We all know the metadata definition explaining that metadata — sometimes incorrectly spelled as "meta data" — is “data about data.” Although pithy, that definition leaves out many of metadata’s critical functions in data governance. Metadata...
Why You Need a Data Catalog for DataOps, According to Forrester Research
Big data has revolutionized the business world. Since the phrase “big data” first rose to prominence in the early ‘00s, numerous studies have shown that businesses focused on using data and business analytics to inform their decisions are significantly more productive...
And That’s a Wrap – Takeaways from Catalog and Cocktails Season Three
Thursday’s Catalog and Cocktails podcast season three finale capped Tim and Juan’s most-popular season yet, with the hosts toasting their 95th episode with … Champagne? (Not a cocktail, we know. But, hey, it was a special occasion.) The episode served as a...
5 Takeaways from Snowflake Summit 2022
It was amazing to see the data world’s best and brightest come together again — in person and under the bright lights of Las Vegas — for Snowflake Summit 2022. From June 13-16, Snowflake’s largest-ever global user conference welcomed nearly 9,000 in-person and over...
The Most Important Skills for Data Engineers
They’re not what you might think... When Catalog and Cocktails hosts Tim Gasper and Juan Sequeda invited Ergest Xheblati, Lead Data Architect at EverQuote, to be their guest on the penultimate episode of the podcast’s third season, the conversation took an unexpected...
The Future of Data Catalogs, from Sanjeev Mohan
Sanjeev Mohan is the Principal of SanjMo. He spoke at the data.world summit in spring of 2022. The promise of metadata is enormous, and the recent hyper-growth of data catalogs reflects that promise. Data catalogs unify how our data is created, transformed,...
Why You Need to Data the Sh*t out of Your Business in a Downturn
In the now iconic line of the 2015 movie The Martian, marooned astronaut Mark Watney (played by Matt Damon) gave us a new verb to sum up his only possible exit from his Red Planet dilemma: “I’m going to have to science the sh*t out of this.” For many businesses, our...
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By Tim Gasper and Juan Sequeda At data.world, we believe that when the world's data is transformed into knowledge, opportunities emerge for everyone. This is accomplished by creating a connected web of data, metadata, and organizational knowledge. It’s why data.world...
The Role of a Data Catalog in Data Mesh
In our previous posts in this series, we focused on the people, processes, and cultural aspects of data mesh. Before we dive into the technical stuff, we should be clear about one thing: if someone tries to sell you a "data mesh platform," run away as fast as...
How an Enterprise Data Catalog Fast Tracks Domain-Driven Data Governance
In my last post, I wrote about the benefits of a domain-driven approach to data governance… and I reminisced about the glory days of the early ‘00s. Putting low-rise jeans and boy bands aside for just a minute, this follow-up post focuses on how adopting an enterprise...
The Data Mesh Balancing Act: Centralized vs. Decentralized Governance
In the second post in our data mesh blog series, we introduced the Data Product ABCs framework.Here, we’ll explore how you find the perfect balance of centralized and decentralized federated data governance to cash in on the full value of your data mesh. Top-down...
Do You Know Your Data Product ABCs?
In our last post, we addressed the market definition of data mesh.Now we’re sharing our point of view on how you should implement it. The most important aspects of data mesh First, as a socio-technical approach, we believe data mesh is as much about people and...
Data is from Mars. Data Science is from Venus.
Today’s explosion of data is unstructured, feral, even wild. It is heterogeneous, or simply diverse. Which contrasts with the way our technologies have long sought to organize data into usable form, by making it homogeneous – or uniform. Enter ‘data mesh’ a radical...
How to Scale Your Data Culture with Data Mesh
Two decades into the twenty-first century, the majority of enterprise organizations continue to struggle to derive true value from their ever-growing stores of data. Bottlenecks created by centralized data teams, monolithic architectures, and restrictive governance...
Why It’s Time to Invest in a Data Catalog
It’s 2022, and data is the lifeblood of business. Gone are the days when executives made decisions based on “business savvy” or “gut instinct.” The most successful modern enterprise businesses — including Netflix, Amazon, Spotify, and Uber — have created highly...
3 Enterprise Data Management Trends CDOs Can’t Stop Talking About
When it comes to building a winning data culture, everyone’s looking for the new process, technology, or methodology that is going to help them turn the corner. Meeting with customers, prospects, and analysts, we hear about a lot of them, but there are three...
5 Questions with Jans Aasman
We all strive to be data-driven. And yet we all instinctively know that we’re not very good at it. In fact, if you believe any number of recent surveys, it seems we may actually be getting worse at data. One reason for this is a misalignment on what success looks like. How do you define and measure it? What is the actual value of your data?
The Return of Domain-Driven Design
Rewind to 2003, when Michael Jordan still played basketball, the third Lord of the Rings movie was in theaters, and you could buy a Ford Ranger for less than $9,000. A book broke onto the scene called “Domain-Driven Design” by Eric Evans that asked a great question –...
