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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

Summary

In this chapter, we have summarized 16 best practices in data management relating to the IT industry. We have recapped best practices across four categories: Data Strategy, Data Architecture, Data Integration and Self-Service, and Data Governance. Each category represents the top best practices that are baked into a Data Fabric architecture. The goals of Data Fabric architecture are to deliver high-quality, governed, protected, and secure data in a high-scale and frictionless manner. Figure 10.1 depicts a logical Data Fabric architecture covered in Chapter 8, Designing Data Integration and Self-Service.

Figure 10.1 – Logical Data Fabric architecture

Figure 10.1 – Logical Data Fabric architecture

This concludes the book. You should now have a deeper understanding of and appreciation for Data Fabric architecture. You can comprehend how it can be used together with other architectures and frameworks, the tremendous value statement it offers, its flexible nature, and its ability to support...