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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 3: Designing and Realizing Data Fabric Architecture

To create and execute Data Fabric architecture, an understanding of what the design entails, with an established reference architecture and technical direction, is necessary.

This third part has five chapters that introduce the logical architecture of Data Fabric and outlines a technical data architecture to enable implementation. It starts by providing an understanding of what enterprise architecture is and the role Data Fabric plays in it. A deeper dive is then carried out into each of the three layers that compose Data Fabric: Data Governance, Data Integration, and Self-Service. The kinds of tools to enable implementation are listed, and this part ends with a list of industry best practices to carry out.

By the end of Part 3, you will know how to design the three layers of Data Fabric architecture. You will also understand the guardrails and principles that need to be embedded into the design. You will know the kinds...