The Heart of the Data Mesh Beats Real-Time with Apache Kafka - Kai Wahner

If there were a buzzword of the hour, it would undoubtedly be “data mesh“!

This new architectural paradigm unlocks analytic and transactional data at scale and enables rapid access to an ever-growing number of distributed domain datasets for various usage scenarios.

The data mesh addresses the most common weaknesses of the traditional centralized data lake or data platform architecture.

And the heart of a decentralized data mesh infrastructure must be real-time, reliable, and scalable. Learn how the de facto standard for data streaming, Apache Kafka, plays a crucial role in building a data mesh.

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Brilliant presentation, thank you Kai! Appreciate that it is dependent on the particular business problem, but can you offer some thoughts on applying data mesh principles (with Kafka particularly) for smaller businesses? Or is it using a sledgehammer to break a nut