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 Data Mesh Principles and Logical Architecture The great divide of data What do we really mean by data? The answer depends on whom you ask. Today’s landscape is divided into  operational data  and  analytical data . Operational data sits in databases behind business capabilities served with microservices, has a transactional nature, keeps the current state and serves the needs of the applications running the business. Analytical data is a temporal and aggregated view of the facts of the business over time, often modeled to provide retrospective or future-perspective insights; it trains the ML models or feeds the analytical reports. The current state of technology, architecture and organization design is reflective of the divergence of these two data planes - two levels of existence, integrated yet separate. This divergence has led to a fragile architecture. Continuously failing ETL (Extract, Transform, Load) jobs and ever growing complexity of labyrinth of data pipel...
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ApplicationBoundary

 ApplicationBoundary


One of the undecided problems of software development is deciding what the boundaries of a piece of software is. (Is a browser part of an operating system or not?) Many proponents of Service Oriented Architecture believe that applications are going away - thus future enterprise software development will be about assembling services together.


I don't think applications are going away for the same reasons why application boundaries are so hard to draw. Essentially applications are social constructions:


A body of code that's seen by developers as a single unit

A group of functionality that business customers see as a single unit

An initiative that those with the money see as a single budget

All of these are social things. We can draw application boundaries in hundred arbitrarily different ways. But it's our nature to group things together and organize groups of people around these groups. There's little science in how this works, and in many ways these boundaries are drawn primarily by human inter-relationships and politics rather than technical and functional considerations. To think about this more clearly I think we have to recognize this uncomfortable fact.


(If you are interesting in thinking further about applications and how they interrelate, you should take a look at the strategic design section of Domain-Driven Design)

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