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5 questions in Data Mesh.

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A CDO proposes moving to a data mesh because the central data team is a bottleneck with a nine-month backlog. How do you assess the proposal?

A large enterprise wants to move from a central data team to a decentralised model. What determines whether that succeeds, and what does it not fix?

An interviewer says "we are going federated across about 40 domains. Which governance policies do we put in the platform as code and which stay as written guidance? Talk me through how you decide, and what the code version costs us."

An organisation is considering data mesh. What problem does it actually solve, what does it require, and when is a central platform team the better answer?

What must exist before decentralising data ownership makes things better rather than worse?