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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

DataOps’ value

DataOps accelerates operations in building and delivering data solutions. It can be viewed as a layer sitting on a Data Fabric architecture that expedites data processing and delivery to achieve an organization’s digital transformation journey. As discussed in Chapter 2, Show Me the Business Value, there are four key ingredients to achieve profitable data monetization:

  • Trusted quality data
  • Meaningful insights
  • Action-oriented business plan
  • High execution speed

DataOps with Data Fabric focuses on the delivery of trusted, quality data and meaningful insights, that is, insights that can be acted upon to derive value and reliability. Both the first and second points enable the creation of a lucrative business plan that can be executed on. Time is money, and DataOps and Data Fabric specialize in achieving the preceding four goals quickly.

The following is a summary of the key objectives of a DataOps discipline:

  • Customer satisfaction...