The Data Vault Handbook - Concepts and Applications

CORE PRINCIPLES OF DATA MESH

— Domain Ownership: Data is managed by the teams who understand the domain best. These teams are responsible for ensuring the quality, governance, and availability of their data, making them more accountable and responsive to business needs — Data as a Product: Data is treated as a first-class product. Each domain ensures its data is discoverable, accessible, and trustworthy for other teams to use. The aim is to deliver value continuously, maintaining high standards for data quality — Self-Serve Data Infrastructure: To enable decentralization, a self-service infrastructure is necessary. This allows domain teams to independently access tools, pipelines, and platforms needed to create, manage, and share data products without the reliance on centralized data engineering teams — Federated Governance: Even though teams manage their own data, governance is still crucial. Federated governance ensures that global standards such as data security, privacy, and compliance are adhered to while allowing teams the freedom to operate independently