Data Mesh Radio
Interviews with data mesh practitioners, deep dives/how-tos, anti-patterns, panels, chats (not debates) with skeptics, "mesh musings", and so much more. Host Scott Hirleman (founder of the Data Mesh Learning Community) shares his learnings - and those of the broader data community - from over a year of deep diving into data mesh.
Each episode contains a BLUF - bottom line, up front - so you can quickly absorb a few key takeaways and also decide if an episode will be useful to you - nothing worse than listening for 20+ minutes before figuring out if a podcast episode is going to be interesting and/or incremental ;) Hoping to provide quality transcripts in the future - if you want to help, please reach out!
Data Mesh Radio is also looking for guests to share their experience with data mesh! Even if that experience is 'I am confused, let's chat about' some specific topic. Yes, that could be you! You can check out our guest and feedback FAQ, including how to submit your name to be a guest and how to submit feedback - including anonymously if you want - here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1dDdb1mEhmcYqx3xYAvPuM1FZMuGiCszyY9x8X250KuQ/edit?usp=sharing
Data Mesh Radio is committed to diversity and inclusion. This includes in our guests and guest hosts. If you are part of a minoritized group, please see this as an open invitation to being a guest, so please hit the link above.
If you are looking for additional useful information on data mesh, we recommend the community resources from Data Mesh Learning. All are vendor independent. https://datameshlearning.com/community/
You should also follow Zhamak Dehghani (founder of the data mesh concept); she posts a lot of great things on LinkedIn and has a wonderful data mesh book through O'Reilly. Plus, she's just a nice person: https://www.linkedin.com/in/zhamak-dehghani/detail/recent-activity/shares/
Data Mesh Radio is provided as a free community resource by DataStax. If you need a database that is easy to scale - read: serverless - but also easy to develop for - many APIs including gRPC, REST, JSON, GraphQL, etc. all of which are OSS under the Stargate project - check out DataStax's AstraDB service :) Built on Apache Cassandra, AstraDB is very performant and oh yeah, is also multi-region/multi-cloud so you can focus on scaling your company, not your database. There's a free forever tier for poking around/home projects and you can also use code DAAP500 for a $500 free credit (apply under payment options): https://www.datastax.com/products/datastax-astra?utm_source=DataMeshRadio
Latest episodes
Sep 4, 2023 • 20min
Rerelease of #177 - Zhamak's Corner 14 - The Data Can't Protect Itself
This podcast explores the significance of trust in data and the importance of data ownership within organizations. It discusses the challenges of data provenance and the concept of data ownership in the DataMesh system. The podcast also addresses the problems with data systems and introduces the concept of a data product as a solution. It emphasizes the need for data encapsulation, connecting data products, and establishing trust in data sharing and processing through localized ownership.
Sep 3, 2023 • 38min
Weekly Episode Summaries and Programming Notes – Week of September 3, 2023
Sign up for Data Mesh Understanding's free roundtable and introduction programs here: https://landing.datameshunderstanding.com/Please Rate and Review us on your podcast app of choice!If you want to be a guest or give feedback (suggestions for topics, comments, etc.), please see hereEpisode list and links to all available episode transcripts here.Provided as a free resource by Data Mesh Understanding / Scott Hirleman. Get in touch with Scott on LinkedIn if you want to chat data mesh.If you want to learn more and/or join the Data Mesh Learning Community, see here: https://datameshlearning.com/community/All music used this episode was found on PixaBay and was created by (including slight edits by Scott Hirleman): Lesfm, MondayHopes, SergeQuadrado, ItsWatR, Lexin_Music, and/or nevesf
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Sep 1, 2023 • 1h 12min
Rerelease of #52 Data Mesh Data Governance: Getting Out of Your Own Way - Interview w/ Sarita Bakst
Sarita Bakst, data governance expert, discusses the importance of changing the narrative of data governance in data mesh to avoid inhibiting innovation. The podcast explores topics such as data products' role in unlocking business value, the significance of product naming for data discovery, and finding the right balance between centralized and decentralized governance.
Aug 30, 2023 • 1h 16min
Rerelease of #44 A Pragmatic Approach to Getting Started with Data Mesh at Northern Trust - Interview w/ Khanh Chau
Scott interviews Khanh Chau, Lead Architect for the Data Mesh Initiative at Northern Trust. Khanh discusses the importance of passion and patience in implementing data mesh. Each journey is unique and failure should be embraced. They also talk about the challenges of convincing execs and improving data service deployments. Creating scalable data systems, lean coding, and automation are key. They also touch on real-time data management, data governance, and empowering data engineering teams. The progress and timeline of the data mesh community are highlighted.
Aug 28, 2023 • 21min
Rerelease of #25 The Most Key Data Mesh Takeaway: It's Not Just You - Mesh Musings 5
This podcast discusses the challenges of implementing a data mesh, the importance of openness and collaboration in the data community, exploring MLOps challenges and vendor selection, and provides key takeaways and advice for implementing a data mesh.
Aug 27, 2023 • 17min
Weekly Episode Summaries and Programming Notes – Week of August 27, 2023
Please Rate and Review us on your podcast app of choice!If you want to be a guest or give feedback (suggestions for topics, comments, etc.), please see hereEpisode list and links to all available episode transcripts here.Provided as a free resource by Data Mesh Understanding / Scott Hirleman. Get in touch with Scott on LinkedIn if you want to chat data mesh.If you want to learn more and/or join the Data Mesh Learning Community, see here: https://datameshlearning.com/community/All music used this episode was found on PixaBay and was created by (including slight edits by Scott Hirleman): Lesfm, MondayHopes, SergeQuadrado, ItsWatR, Lexin_Music, and/or nevesf
Aug 25, 2023 • 2min
New Episode Hiatus Announcement
Due to lingering severe health issues and not trying to rush myself back, I will be doing a 3 week hiatus around new episodes. In that break, I will be rereleasing some old episodes that I think people really need to listen to or possibly reflect on if they haven't listened to them lately. Here's to better health in the near future!
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Aug 25, 2023 • 1h 2min
#251 Panel: Tying the Business Strategy to the Data Work and Vice Versa - Led by Burce Gültekin w/ Ghada Richani, Beth Bauer, and Michael Toland
#251 Panel discussion with Ghada Richani, Beth Bauer, and Michael Toland. Topics include tying business strategy to data work, utilizing data to manage risk in banking, evolution towards data-oriented systems, embracing failure, aligning data work with business strategy, and gratitude and data fluency.
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Aug 21, 2023 • 1h 11min
#250 Staying Aligned on the Vision in Data Mesh - Lessons from Volkswagen's Journey - Interview w/ Christoph Spohr
Scott interviews Christoph Spohr, Lead Architect of Big Data Platforms and the Product Owner of Data Mesh at Volkswagen Group. They discuss aligning the enterprise level vision in data mesh, importance of focusing on use cases, implementing data mesh in an established enterprise, preparing and delivering products for senior leadership, navigating analysis paralysis, data alignment and optimization in the enterprise strategy, and the importance of people management and communication in driving cultural change.
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Aug 20, 2023 • 30min
Weekly Episode Summaries and Programming Notes – Week of August 20, 2023
Please Rate and Review us on your podcast app of choice!If you want to be a guest or give feedback (suggestions for topics, comments, etc.), please see hereEpisode list and links to all available episode transcripts here.Provided as a free resource by Data Mesh Understanding / Scott Hirleman. Get in touch with Scott on LinkedIn if you want to chat data mesh.If you want to learn more and/or join the Data Mesh Learning Community, see here: https://datameshlearning.com/community/All music used this episode was found on PixaBay and was created by (including slight edits by Scott Hirleman): Lesfm, MondayHopes, SergeQuadrado, ItsWatR, Lexin_Music, and/or nevesf
