#166 Capital One's Data Mesh Journey and How They Created a New Product Along This Journey - Interview w/ Salim Syed

Sign up for Data Mesh Understanding's free roundtable and introduction programs here: https://landing.datameshunderstanding.com/Please Rate and Review us on your podcast app of choice!If you want to be a guest or give feedback (suggestions for topics, comments, etc.), please see hereEpisode list and links to all available episode transcripts here.Provided as a free resource by Data Mesh Understanding / Scott Hirleman. Get in touch with Scott on LinkedIn if you want to chat data mesh.Transcript for this episode (link) provided by Starburst. See their Data Mesh Summit recordings here and their great data mesh resource center here. You can download their Data Mesh for Dummies e-book (info gated) here.Salim's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/salim-syed-11981521/Capital One Software: https://www.capitalone.com/software/Capital One Slingshot: https://www.capitalone.com/software/solutions/Capital One blog post on their use of Snowflake for data mesh: https://www.capitalone.com/software/blog/operationalizing-data-mesh/In this episode, Scott interviewed Salim Syed, VP of Engineering at Capital One Software.Some key takeaways/thoughts from Salim's point of view:!Contrarian!: "Data mesh works with central policy, central tooling, but federated ownership." Work to federate your infrastructure ownership, not just data ownership.No matter what size of domain or LoB, look to have the same responsibilities owned by each domain. They may fall under different people but the role they serve should look the same across the domains.Get your roles and responsibilities established first, then look to start tackling other challenges.Do your best to hide the data engineering complexity from your self-serve platform users. Help them do their job, not learn data engineering. Focus on creating a great experience for them in their workflows.Think about data risk from an opportunity standpoint: if you have strong risk controls, you can feel more comfortable giving more people wider access - you know what is allowed so you can potentially