Data Mesh
An organisational approach that gives domain teams ownership of their analytical data as a product, with a self-serve platform and federated governance.
A response to the central data team becoming a bottleneck: every pipeline is built by people who do not understand the domain, for consumers they never meet, from sources they cannot fix.
Four principles — domain ownership of analytical data, treating that data as a product with an owner, documentation, SLAs and a consumer; a self-serve platform so domains do not each build infrastructure; and federated computational governance, where global rules are agreed centrally and enforced automatically.
It is primarily an operating-model change and it fails when adopted as a technology purchase. It also requires domain teams that have the capacity and skills to own data products, which is a larger prerequisite than most adopters budget for.