Data mesh concepts

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This page is a placeholder; the article is planned but not yet written.

This article will explain what a data mesh is and how the Canonical Data Mesh embodies its principles.

Planned outline:

• The problem: isolated departmental data stacks and centralized bottlenecks.

• Data mesh principles: domain ownership, data as a product, self-service infrastructure, and federated governance.

• How the solution maps to the principles: federated query instead of centralized copies, a shared catalog for discovery, and governance enforced at the access layer.

• Where the solution deliberately deviates from the theory.