#139 Reflecting on Learnings from Glovo's Early Data Mesh Journey - Interview w/ Javier Granda and Pablo Giner Abad

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.Glovo's meetup group: https://www.meetup.com/glovo-tech-talks/Javo's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/javiergrandag/Javo's Twitter: @JavierGrandaG / https://twitter.com/JavierGrandaGPablo's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/pabloginerabad/In this episode, Scott interviewed Pablo Giner Abad, Global Director of Data and Javier "Javo" Granda, Senior Data Manager at Glovo.From here forward in this write-up, P&J will refer to Javo and Pablo rather than trying to specifically call out who said which part.Some key takeaways/thoughts from P&J's point of view:It's okay to not fit the exact or complete picture of data mesh in your early journey. Focus on what matters to your org and implementation and focus on learning over trying to be perfect. Iteration is possible and not too costly with data mesh. That's sort of one of the main points of data mesh.When selecting your first use case, look for high value and low dependencies. The less cross-team coordination work needed to actually get to an initial end data product that has value, the better. And buy-in is much easier if the producers are one of the consumers too :)When starting out, really look at how thin of a slice you can get away with for your MVP. Be prepared to make some hard compromises. Make them with your eyes open. It's tech debt but taken on consciously.Focus on solving your problems of...