<s>
Data	B-General_Concept
mesh	I-General_Concept
is	O
a	O
sociotechnical	O
approach	O
to	O
building	O
a	O
decentralized	O
data	O
architecture	O
by	O
leveraging	O
a	O
domain-oriented	O
,	O
self-serve	O
design	O
(	O
in	O
a	O
software	O
development	O
perspective	O
)	O
,	O
and	O
borrows	O
Eric	O
Evans’	O
theory	O
of	O
domain-driven	O
design	O
and	O
Manuel	O
Pais’	O
and	O
Matthew	O
Skelton	O
’s	O
theory	O
of	O
team	O
topologies	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Data	B-General_Concept
mesh	I-General_Concept
mainly	O
concerns	O
itself	O
with	O
the	O
data	O
itself	O
,	O
taking	O
the	O
data	B-General_Concept
lake	I-General_Concept
and	O
the	O
pipelines	O
as	O
a	O
secondary	O
concern	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
With	O
data	B-General_Concept
mesh	I-General_Concept
,	O
the	O
responsibility	O
for	O
analytical	O
data	O
is	O
shifted	O
from	O
the	O
central	O
data	O
team	O
to	O
the	O
domain	O
teams	O
,	O
supported	O
by	O
a	O
data	B-Application
platform	I-Application
team	O
that	O
provides	O
a	O
domain-agnostic	O
data	B-Application
platform	I-Application
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
term	O
data	B-General_Concept
mesh	I-General_Concept
was	O
first	O
defined	O
by	O
Zhamak	O
Dehghani	O
in	O
2019	O
while	O
she	O
was	O
working	O
as	O
a	O
principal	O
consultant	O
at	O
the	O
technology	O
company	O
Thoughtworks	B-Application
.	O
</s>
<s>
Data	B-General_Concept
meshes	I-General_Concept
have	O
been	O
implemented	O
by	O
companies	O
such	O
as	O
Zalando	O
,	O
Netflix	O
,	O
Intuit	O
,	O
VistaPrint	O
,	O
JPMorgan	O
Chase	O
,	O
PayPal	O
and	O
others	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
In	O
2022	O
,	O
Dehghani	O
left	O
Thoughtworks	B-Application
to	O
found	O
NextData	O
Technologies	O
to	O
focus	O
on	O
decentralized	O
data	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Data	B-General_Concept
mesh	I-General_Concept
is	O
based	O
on	O
four	O
core	O
principles	O
:	O
</s>
