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Principles of Data Fabric

By : Sonia Mezzetta
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Principles of Data Fabric

By: Sonia Mezzetta

Overview of this book

Data can be found everywhere, from cloud environments and relational and non-relational databases to data lakes, data warehouses, and data lakehouses. Data management practices can be standardized across the cloud, on-premises, and edge devices with Data Fabric, a powerful architecture that creates a unified view of data. This book will enable you to design a Data Fabric solution by addressing all the key aspects that need to be considered. The book begins by introducing you to Data Fabric architecture, why you need them, and how they relate to other strategic data management frameworks. You’ll then quickly progress to grasping the principles of DataOps, an operational model for Data Fabric architecture. The next set of chapters will show you how to combine Data Fabric with DataOps and Data Mesh and how they work together by making the most out of it. After that, you’ll discover how to design Data Integration, Data Governance, and Self-Service analytics architecture. The book ends with technical architecture to implement distributed data management and regulatory compliance, followed by industry best practices and principles. By the end of this data book, you will have a clear understanding of what Data Fabric is and what the architecture looks like, along with the level of effort that goes into designing a Data Fabric solution.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
1
Part 1: The Building Blocks
4
Part 2: Complementary Data Management Approaches and Strategies
8
Part 3: Designing and Realizing Data Fabric Architecture

Part 1: The Building Blocks

Data Fabric architecture, alongside its distinguishing qualities and business value proposition, needs to first be defined to enable its adoption as part of any data management strategy.

The first part of this book introduces Data Fabric architecture by establishing the core building blocks and their business value proposition. I offer a different perspective on what defines Data Fabric architecture than ones on the market today. Data Fabric is a flexible and composable architecture capable of adopting several data management styles and operational models. Foundational Data Governance pillars and their intended focus are explained, and a list of key characteristics of what does and doesn’t define Data Fabric is provided.

By the end of Part 1, you will have an understanding of what Data Fabric architecture is, its differentiating characteristics and architecture principles, and the impact of not having a Data Governance-centric architecture...