Data Mesh Data Governance: Getting Out of Your Own Way - Interview w/ Sarita Bakst

Provided as a free resource by DataStax https://www.datastax.com/products/datastax-astra?utm_source=DataMeshRadio (AstraDB) https://www.patreon.com/datameshradio (Data Mesh Radio Patreon) - get access to interviews well before they are released Transcript for this episode (https://docs.google.com/document/d/15mp8YWgtYQxaOW9Rn_oltKF1oYYOPGYeSHmVJkmQuWw/edit?usp=sharing (link)) provided by Starburst. See their Data Mesh Summit recordings https://www.starburst.io/learn/events-webinars/datanova-on-demand/?datameshradio (here) and their great data mesh resource center https://www.starburst.io/info/distributed-data-mesh-resource-center/?datameshradio (here) In this episode, Scott interviewed Sarita Bakst, Managing Director and a leader in Firmwide Data Management at JP Morgan Chase. Sarita was previously on a Data Mesh Learning meetup and is helping lead the firm's data mesh governance charge. Per Sarita, historically, data governance has meant controls and gatekeeping to most people - typically getting in way of innovation. So there needs to be a focus on changing that narrative, not just through words but actions to show it's not the case. In data mesh, you need to ensure that domains can make good decisions on governance and seek out subject matter experts when it makes sense. Sarita covered that one of the key issues in the way governance has been done is the people making decisions - the central governance team - don't have the real understanding of the data. When those decisions are put in the hands of the people who really know the data, but with guardrails and guidance, the fear is lifted about can we actually use this data and how. This opens up lots of new opportunities to leverage your data. Sarita strongly recommends starting with purpose-built data products. Find a use case and build data products to serve that specific. And data products MUST be about unlocking business value. You don't need to serve up all of a domain's data on day one, in version one of that domain's first data product - make it