Here is a collection of resources from this blog and outside this blog. It includes articles, books, videos, podcasts, and community. More will come over time. Please contact me to suggest additional resources.
Articles on this blog
Other articles of interest
- Foundational article by Zhamak Dehghani: Data Mesh Principles and Logical Architecture, written December 3rd 2020.
- My contribution to the PayPal Engineering Blog: The next generation of Data Platforms is the Data Mesh, published August 3rd 2022.
Books
Data Mesh: Delivering Data-Driven Value at Scale
By Zhamak Dehghani
Reference book and very complete, Zhamak’s book is a must-read for any serious implementor.
Publisher: O’Reilly Media.
Buy on Amazon.com.
Data Mesh in Action
by Jacek Majchrzak, Sven Balnojan, Marian Siwiak
Jacek’s book is a more pragmatic approach to Data Mesh.
Publisher: Manning Publications.
Buy on Manning.com and Amazon.com.
Data Mesh for all ages
By Jean-Georges Perrin
Easy to understand, highly illustrated, short (16 pages) book explaining the basic principles of Data Mesh to a very wide audience.
Publisher: jgp.ai.
Videos
If you are into visual and audio learning, there are a few videos on YouTube around Data Mesh.
Introduction to Data Mesh is my favorite video by Zhamak Dehghani. She did a few others, so feel free to browse for her content.
Yours, humbly, recorded and shared The next generation of Data Platforms is the Data Mesh — DataFriday 2×07 as part of my DataFriday series.
Podcast
If you’re into podcasts, which I listen to when I mow my yard (and I mow too much), you need to listen to Scott Hirleman’s Data Mesh Radio.
Community
Data Mesh Learning (DML) is a vendor-independent & consultant-independent website, designed to help those of all knowledge and experience levels with data mesh find useful information and join the growing community. The founders saw how difficult it was to find data mesh content scattered across the web so they created a central location. Their goal is to make learning about data mesh easy, drive buy-in at your company, and connect you with others looking to deploy a data mesh.
As of February 2023, their Slack community has more than 7000 practitioners.
PayPal
If you are working for PayPal, contact me via Slack, and I will share more internal resources regarding Data Mesh.