#213 Zhamak's Corner 21 - Reinventing Data Development, Not Data Processing and Storage

<p>Sponsored by <a href="https://www.nextdata.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">NextData</a>, Zhamak's company that is helping ease data product creation.</p><p>For more great content from Zhamak, check out her book on <a href="https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/data-mesh/9781492092384/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">data mesh</a>, <a href="https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/software-architecture-the/9781492086888/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">a book she collaborated on</a>, <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/zhamak-dehghani/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">her LinkedIn</a>, and <a href="https://twitter.com/zhamakd" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">her Twitter</a>.</p><p>Key Takeaways:</p><ul><li>We need to make the data product the first class primitive of information sharing - make them the basic building block of how we create our internal data/AI ecosystem. (repeat from ZC20)</li><li>"Tools reshape behavior" - if we want developers to change their relationship to data, we need to give them the capability to do so easily. Or even if not easily, at least not arduously :)</li><li>The industry sees the value of data mesh but we need to find much lower effort ways to create sustainable, large-scale change. We all need to be finding catalysts.</li><li>There is no reason to try to reinvent a lot of the technology in data at the physical layer. Lake storage, streaming technologies, ML libraries _at the physical layer_ are great. But we need new ways of accessing and leveraging them to make it far easier to create and manage data products.</li><li>While everyone seems to be talking data products, there seems to be so many different definitions. This has led to a weaker market pull on vendors to improve their tooling to make data mesh more easily possible.</li></ul><br/><p>Semantic Diffusion article Zhamak mentioned: <a href="https://www.martinfowler.com/bliki/SemanticDiffusion.html" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.martinfowler.com/