Everything Zhamak Dehghani said on any show that made the record, most notable first. Each card names its show and opens the statement there.
Dehghani: Centralized data architecture creates systems fragile to macro-level change
“Centralization of the data, centralization of the organization, functional division between the data and non-data, those are the things that have led to kind of a system that is fragile to scale and change at the macro level, not at the bits and bytes level, r…”
Dehghani: Current Data Mesh setups are Frankenstein creations stitching existing tech
“At this point in time, it looks like a Frankenstein creation because we have to stitch together a lot of technologies that exist and they weren't designed for this model of reconfiguring, you know, being reconfigured in this way.”
Dehghani: Data engineering and data science will become basic engineering skills
“I think one of the big changes would be, we'll move from this specialized and specialization to generalization. So some of the things that we consider specialization today, like data engineering, a large portion of what we call data science becomes basic engin…”
Dehghani: The debate between data warehouses and lakes is irrelevant
“And I think this kind of funny war between warehouse and lake and web model We should access the data that that seems to me a little bit irrelevant because both of those access models are very acceptable.”
Dehghani: Enterprise data usage shifted from operational reporting to embedding ML in applications
“We've moved away from, okay, I'm going to run a few, set up a warehouse and get a few reports and get an insight into the operation of my organizations to actually I want to run, you know, include ML, a data-driven way of solving problems into every feature of…”
Dehghani: Data access control is proprietary compared to standardized API access
“Access control right now is very proprietary in data world to the platform you're stuck in compared to the API world where you have some sort of a, you know, standard.”
Dehghani: Enterprise data lake migration should start with data consumer needs
“I think you start going backward from your consumers of the data data lakes. So look at who's accessing it, why they're accessing it, what data do they need? Work backward and go back to the source.”
Dehghani: True data immutability requires both event and processing timestamps
“The data can be only immutable if we build two time timestamps into every single kind of representation of the data, and those two timestamps are when something actually happened, and when we process that information, our understanding of that data.”
ThoughtWorks plans to publish an open-source Data Mesh reference implementation
“So we will publish that open source. We'll have an open source reference implementation. So we're working on it internally.”
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