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Barry Devlin

Cutting Data Fabric and Mesh to Measure with Dr. Barry Devlin

Comparing Data Fabric with Data Mesh highlights how architectural choices influence interoperability, decentralisation and enterprise-wide data coordination.

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Fabric or Mesh?

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Data Fabric: Unified layer for integrated data

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Data Mesh: Domain‑driven decentralised data ownership

Introducing the Presenter

Barry Devlin

Founder and Principal of 9sight Consulting

Dr. Barry Devlin is among the foremost authorities on business insight and one of the founders of data warehousing, having published the first architectural paper in 1988.

With almost 40 years of IT experience, including 20 years with IBM as a Distinguished Engineer, he is a widely respected industry analyst, consultant, speaker and author of the seminal book, “Data Warehouse—from Architecture to Implementation” and numerous White Papers. His 2013 book, “Business unIntelligence—Insight and Innovation beyond Analytics and Big Data” is available in both hardcopy and e-book formats.

As founder and principal of 9sight Consulting, Barry provides strategic consulting and thought-leadership to buyers and vendors of BI solutions. He is continuously developing new architectural models for all aspects of decision-making and action-taking support. Now based in Cornwall, Barry’s knowledge and expertise are in demand across Europe and beyond.






Cutting Data Fabric and Mesh to Measure

Data warehouses have been around since the 1980s while the Data Vault method of managing your enterprise data warehouse – Invented by Dan Linstedt – has undergone two incarnations over the last 20 years.

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