Moses: Centralized data teams become bottlenecks as data usage scales
Barr Moses · Unlocking Data Observability with Monte Carlo's Barr Moses · Apr 12, 2022 · at 11:07
Barr Moses, co-founder and CEO of Monte Carlo, discusses the shift toward decentralized data architectures like Data Mesh as organizations scale data usage.
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“Today you have like hundreds of people working with the data. It does not make sense anymore that there's one team that sort of has the keys to it and is really actually just ends up as a bottleneck.”
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