The Data Stack Show - The PRQL: A Data Mesh Deep Dive with Paolo Platter, Zhamak Dehghani, and Melissa Logan

Episode Date: December 11, 2023

In this bonus episode, Eric and Kostas preview their upcoming conversation regarding Data Mesh with Paolo Platter, Zhamak Dehghani, and Melissa Logan.

Welcome to the Data Stack Show Prequel. This is a short bonus episode where we preview the upcoming show. You'll hear about the topics we're going to cover. If they're interesting to you, you can catch the full-length show when it drops on Wednesday. Costas, we love covering topics that we have not covered on the show before. We've done over 150 shows at this point. And it's kind of crazy that we haven't covered the topic of data mesh. But at Coalesce, dbt's conference, they announced a data mesh product. And so we work with Brooks to get literally the author of the data mesh book on the show so that we can get the straight line story on what data mesh is, which is great. I mean, this is a topic that a lot of people are talking about.

There are certainly a lot of conversation around it. And I think what we need to do, at least what I'm going to try and do, is just put a sharp definition on it. Data mesh means a lot of things to a lot of people. And so if we have the author of the book, the person who coined the term, we can sort of level set on what data mesh means. That's what I'm going to do, but I'm sure you're going to have technical questions because data mesh is fundamentally technical. So what are you going to ask about? Yeah, I want to ask about the products that support the data mesh. Data mesh has similar movements in how we change the way that we are thinking and operating in the business environment.

It has many parts, right? It has the people part and also the technology part. I think there has been a lot of focus on the people part and the change of culture and the way that organizations need to change and all these things for the data to be implemented and deliver its value. But we have also like the right people today to talk about products, like what kind of products someone could use that either support or enable the implementation of a data mesh. And that's what I would like to focus.

And also probably if we have the time, like to focus a little bit more also on some terminology, like what's a data product, for example, and how do you implement a data product and these kinds of things that are very fundamental as part of the data mesh as an architecture. So we have the right people to understand data mesh from both the organizational, the people aspect,

and also the technology aspect. So I'm very excited. Let's go and chat with them. All right, that's a wrap for the prequel. The full-length episode will drop Wednesday morning. Subscribe now so you don't miss it.