"Data lake architecture suffers from complexity and deterioration. It creates complex and unwieldy pipelines of batch or streaming jobs operated by a central team of hyper-specialized data engineers. It deteriorates over time. Its unmanaged datasets, which are often untrusted and inaccessible, provide little value. The data lineage and dependencies are obscured and hard to track." (Zhamak Dehghani, "Data Mesh: Delivering Data-Driven Value at Scale", 2021)
"Data engineering is the process of converting raw data into analytics-ready data that is more accessible, usable, and consumable than its raw format. Modern companies are increasingly becoming data-driven, which means they use data to make business decisions to give them better insights into their customers and business operations. They can use these to improve profitability, reduce costs, and give them a competitive edge in the market. Behind the scenes, a series of tasks and processes are performed by a host of data personas who build reliable pipelines to source, transform, and analyze data so that it is a repeatable and mostly automated process." (Anindita Mahapatra, "Simplifying Data Engineering and Analytics with Delta", 2022)
"Since data engineering is such a crucial field, you may be wondering who the main players are and what skill sets they possess. Building a data product involves several folks, all of whom need to come together with seamless handoffs to ensure a successful end product or service is created. It would be a mistake to create silos and increase both the number and complexity of integration points as each additional integration is a potential failure point." (Anindita Mahapatra, "Simplifying Data Engineering and Analytics with Delta", 2022)
"We are at the interesting conjunction of big data, the cloud, and artificial intelligence (AI), all of which are fueling tremendous innovation in every conceivable industry vertical and generating data exponentially. Data engineering is increasingly important as data drives business use cases in every industry vertical. You may argue that data scientists and machine learning practitioners are the unicorns of the industry, and they can work their magic for business. That is certainly a stretch of the imagination. Simple algorithms and a lot of good reliable data produce better insights than complicated algorithms with inadequate data." (Anindita Mahapatra, "Simplifying Data Engineering and Analytics with Delta", 2022)
"Building a data product is enabled by the data domain owner; however, building a data product itself is primarily driven by the data product owner, which can be a marketing or a customer care organization, an after-sales team, or even an individual business user. The data product owner is collaborating with data engineers, data scientists, and other subject matter experts throughout the entire data product build process." (Eberhard Hechler et al, "Data Fabric and Data Mesh Approaches with AI", 2023)
"A domain has two main roles: data product engineer (or just data engineer) and the data product owner (or data product manager, or data steward). These roles can be the same or dedicated people in the domain. Data product owners must have a deep understanding of who their data consumers are, how the data is used, and what methods are used to consume the data. This will help ensure that the data products meet the needs of their use cases. Data product engineers are responsible for creating data products that are high quality, reliable, and usable by consumers. It should be possible to extend existing domain roles to include these domain roles with minimal effort." (Hubert Dulay & Stephen Mooney, "Streaming Data Mesh", 2023)
"The data should be monitored in the source, it should be corrected in the source, and it should then feed the secondary source(s) with high-quality data that can be used without workarounds. The reduction in workarounds will make the data engineers, scientists, and data visualization specialists much more productive." (Robert Hawker, "Practical Data Quality", 2023)
"The value of a Data Mesh solution is that it assigns the creation of data products to data engineers and subject matter experts upstream who are most familiar with the business domains and corresponding needs." (Eberhard Hechler et al, "Data Fabric and Data Mesh Approaches with AI", 2023)
"When building a data mesh, it is necessary to enable existing engineers in a domain to perform the tasks required. Domains have to capture data from their operational stores, transform (join or enrich, aggregate, balance) that data, and publish their data products to the data mesh. Self-service services are the “easy buttons” necessary to make data mesh easy to adopt with high usability. In summary, the selfservices enable the domain engineers to take on many of the tasks the data engineer was responsible for across all lines of the business. A data mesh not only breaks up the monolithic data lake, but also breaks up the monolithic role of the data engineer into simple tasks the domain engineers can perform." (Hubert Dulay & Stephen Mooney, "Streaming Data Mesh", 2023)
"Traditionally, data engineers are responsible for the first steps of data transformation, commonly referred to as the transition from the 'bronze' stage to the 'silver' stage. This phase includes the normalization of raw data to clean and organize it into a structured and accessible format. Data Engineers ensure that data is properly ingested, stored, and prepared for subsequent steps. Their work focuses on building robust data pipelines and applying basic transformations that make the data usable." (Christopher Maneu et al, "The Definitive Guide to Microsoft Fabric From discovery to building a unified, secure, and scalable data platform", 2025)
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