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random's avatar

Reading too much of you does not make my career look very promising as a new product manager for a data team lol

Benn Stancil's avatar

Well, if makes you feel any better, I have no idea what I'm talking about, so this is probably something like the anti-galloway index for data predictions.

https://galloway-index.webflow.io/

Jeremie's avatar

Data horoscopes is a great analogy… I hope it doesn’t make us (the industry) data fortune tellers.

Benn Stancil's avatar

Yes, but, I'd also be kind of fun to answer questions with stuff like "Metrics will surge this week, for those who deserve it. There will be opportunities to be found. Patience is required, but know when to act with urgency."

John Wessel's avatar

I'm finally caught up on my reading :-) - and perfectly timed for me. I got a 1000+ SAMPLE XML file this week - the real thing will be tens or hundreds of thousands of lines that will be arriving daily via sftp... and yes this is the only option... so ya. Thats the "bad place" where many of us live.

Benn Stancil's avatar

Yeah, but I'm sure it's all perfectly formatted and orderly and tells lots of nice, satisfying stories.

John Wessel's avatar

Hahaha. Your funny.

James's avatar

Now do this but for data mesh, please!

Benn Stancil's avatar

I would, but I would first have to understand what data mesh is.

Kendall Willets's avatar

It's a Data Warehouse that has exceeded Dunbar's Number.

Benn Stancil's avatar

Which is bad, because personal Dunbar's number is like, 4.

Kendall Willets's avatar

More seriously, the Avocado tool at Yammer/Microsoft is closest to what I think a data mesh is. When it scaled out to MS as a whole, individual groups created data store accounts in the tool and published what were effectively individually managed data products and connected them via ETL jobs.

It had a huge dependency graph that I once plotted in Graphviz as an example of managing chaos, but since each piece was managed by an individual team it didn't matter. It scaled to thousands of jobs per hour without much dev involvement.

Benn Stancil's avatar

That's sort of how I feel about the whole thing, to be honest. The solution is pretty simple - give different groups of people their own folders, basically - but that doesn't make people excited, so we created The Data Mesh to make it sound more complicated and cool.

Toby Mather's avatar

This was very funny