The self-service data platform is one of the four key principles of data mesh. It describes the infrastructure and the tooling that makes it possible for domain teams to build, publish, discover, and consume data products without relying heavily on a central data engineering team.

But what are the capabilities this platform needs to provide, and why?

But how do we build such a platform? What are the capabilities it needs to provide, and why? How do we embed data governance throughout this platform?

In this talk Andrew will explain why the self-service data platform is the foundational layer that abstracts complexity and provides standardised, easy-to-use capabilities, and show you how to start implementing such a platform, with data contracts as the enabling feature.