Data Mesh

Data mesh is an socio-technical approach treating domain teams as accountable data product owners supported by self-serve platform capabilities and federated computational governance. It addresses bottlenecks of centralized data teams without abandoning standards. Success requires product thinking, not only new tooling labels.

In Practice

Larkinized LLC assesses organizational readiness before recommending data mesh—skills, platform maturity, and incentive structures matter. EA defines platform standards and interoperability rules domains must follow. Mesh complements—not replaces—enterprise canonical models at integration boundaries.

Example

A domain team publishes a certified “Orders” data product with SLA, schema contract, and lineage in the enterprise catalog.