The 7 Data Mesh Myths
How Monzo Bank does data | 10 Books Every Data Practitioner Should Read | How successful are you with AI according to Deloitte…and Gartner CIO Symposium, the latest stats.
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1 — Everything Data at Google Next in one Podcast!
I had the pleasure to talk about some of our latest announcements with Eric Schmidt, Mark and Bukola. We covered:
BigQuery Omni: cross-cloud analytics on GCP, AWS, & Azure
GA of Dataplex: the intelligent data fabric
Tableau + Looker
Vertex AI Workbench: notebook IDE
Serverless Spark on GCP
Click below to listen to it all!
2— Customer of the Week: Bol.com
60% growth YOY, 30M items sold…that’s a lot of data! Here is another fantastic data journey with bol.com’s Rene Kroon. Lots of learnings particularly around BigQuery and Spanner.
Gartner CIO Symposium: Latest Stats!
Over the next year, CIOs expect IT budgets to grow 3.6% — the fastest year-over-year growth rate in more than a decade…🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀
and 51% of respondents will increase their Data Analytics spend….
Data Analytics for AI gets $565K on average….
While the Top Strategic Technology Trends for 2022 are….
For more on what happened during the Symposium:
Day 1 Highlights here: Big Trend: The Top Strategic Technology Trends for 2022 including Generative AI, Data Fabric, Distributed Enterprise, Cloud-Native Platforms, Autonomic Systems, Decision Intelligence, Composable Applications.
Day 2 Highlights here: Big Trend: By 2024, 80% of CIOs surveyed will list modular business redesign, through composability, as a top 5 reason for accelerated business performance. “When we survey CIOs, they tell us that they want to be more agile. To do that, you need to be composable.”
Day 3 Highlights here: Big Trend: “ESG mentions by CEOs as a top strategic business priority are up 303%. Most CEOs agree that ESG is an investment that attracts more customers, investors and talent.” What’s ESG?! => Environmental, Social and Governance. See the definition here.
Day 4 Highlights here: Big Trend: Gartner Says 57% of Boards of Directors Are Increasing their Risk Appetite into 2022. More here.
4 — How Monzo Bank does data
“Centralized data management and #decentralized value creation”. Love their datastack detailed blog by Luke Singham. Great use of technologies like Looker, BigQuery, Fivetran, dbt Labs, Airflow, Kafka. Read the blog @ https://bit.ly/3B867Ys
5 — 10 Books Every Data Practitioner Should Read.
Which is your favorite?! More here.
Algorithms to Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions
Factfulness
Weapons of Math Destruction
The Book of Why
Invisible Women
Inspired: How to Create Tech Products Customers Love
Data and Goliath: The Hidden Battles to Collect Your Data and Control Your World
The Pragmatic Programmer
Introduction to Statistical Learning
Deep Medicine
EXTRAS
How successful are you with AI?! (Deloitte Survey)
Deloitte’s latest survey of 2,875 executives answers. See how many are #transformers and how many are underachievers below. More here.
Busting Data Mesh Myths in one “Sesh”!
Great blog from Barr going over the top 7 myths of the data mesh, namely:
Can you build a data mesh from a single solution?
Is data mesh another word for data #virtualization?
Does each data product team manage their own separate data stores?
Is a self-serve data platform the same thing as a #decentralized data mesh?
Is the data mesh right for all data teams?
Does one person on your team “own” the data mesh?
Does the data mesh cause friction between data engineers and data analysts?
More here