#21 Data Mesh in Practice: Insights from Zalando's 2 Year Journey w/ Data Mesh - Interview w/ Max Schultze

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.Max's contact info and related links:LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/max-schultze-b11996110/Twitter: @mcs1408 / https://twitter.com/mcs1408Presentations: Similar to content of the book (Data Innovation Summit): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rqYFqtztWi4Zalando's Story (Spark AI Summit): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UrM8yCjmzzwMax and Arif's 'Data Mesh in Practice' book links:O'Reilly: https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/data-mesh-in/9781098108502/Starburst (free gated download): https://www.starburst.io/info/data-mesh-in-practice-ebook/Max and Arif's upcoming training (Feb 14th): https://www.oreilly.com/live-events/data-mesh-in-practice/0636920508816/0636920068685/Transcript (link) courtesy of Starburst; check out their other data mesh resources herePart of Starburst's Datanova Data Mesh Summit takeover week.Max and Arif's upcoming (Feb 9th) Datanova/Starburst Data Mesh Summit Presentation: https://www.starburst.io/info/datanova2022/In this episode, Scott interviews one of the most prolific content producers in data mesh, Max Schultze, Data Engineering Manager at Fashion E-Tailer Zalando. Max shares a LOT of very valuable advice while reflecting on Zalando's data mesh journey so far two years in. Max recommends starting with empathy building and knowledge sharing but looking for ways to scale versus only 1:1 or small group conversations. He had a clever way to force the hands of data consumers to speak to data producers via an Inverse Conway Maneuver that