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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
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Part 3: Designing and Realizing Data Fabric Architecture

Designing Data Integration and Self-Service

Data Integration and Self-Service represent two sides of the same coin in a Data Fabric architecture. Data Integration handles the technical development and processing of data, while Self-Service democratizes data. A DataOps framework overlays Data Integration and Self-Service to achieve the development and delivery of data with high productivity, speed, and quality control. A Data Fabric architecture comprises both the Data Integration and Self-Service layers and relies on the Data Governance layer for embedded and automated governance.

In this chapter, we’ll introduce you to the Data Integration and Self-Service layers of a Data Fabric architecture. We will discuss how these two layers interact with one another and how they work with the Data Governance layer to create a Data Fabric. The applicability of Data Fabric and DataOps principles will be discussed as part of the life cycle of data. We will conclude the chapter by presenting...