From Data Lake to Data Products: Operationalising Analytics at Scale

From Data Lake to Data Products: Operationalising Analytics at Scale

Introduction The rise of enterprise data lakes in the 2010s promised consolidated storage for any data at scale. However, while flexible and scalable, they often resulted in so-called “data swamps”- repositories of inaccessible, unmanaged, or low-quality data with fragmented ownership. This article highlights the shift toward decentralised, domain-aligned structures, such as showcased in Data Mesh, and the emergence of productised data, showing …