Tom van Eijk

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2since 2021 · last 2026
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Software engineering, systems software and programming languages · 2 · 1 first-author · 2 since 2021
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2026 Architectural Design Decisions for Federated Computational Governance in Data Meshes
Marco Tonnarelli, Tom van Eijk, Indika Kumara, Dario Di Nucci, Damian A. Tamburri, Willem-Jan van den Heuvel
ICSA2
2024 Architectural Design Decisions for Self-Serve Data Platforms in Data Meshes
abstract
Data mesh is an emerging decentralized approach to managing and generating value from analytical enterprise data at scale. It shifts the ownership of the data to the business domains closest to the data, promotes sharing and managing data as autonomous products, and uses a federated and automated data governance model. The data mesh relies on a managed data platform that offers services to domain and governance teams to build, share, and manage data products efficiently. However, designing and implementing a self-serve data platform is challenging, and the platform engineers and architects must understand and choose the appropriate design options to ensure the platform will enhance the experience of domain and governance teams. For these reasons, this paper proposes a catalog of architectural design decisions and their corresponding decision options by systematically reviewing 43 industrial gray literature articles on self-serve data platforms in data mesh. Moreover, we used semi-structured interviews with six data engineering experts with data mesh experience to validate, refine, and extend the findings from the literature. Such a catalog of design decisions and options drawn from the state of practice shall aid practitioners in building data meshes while providing a baseline for further research on data mesh architectures.
Tom van Eijk, Indika Kumara, Dario Di Nucci, Damian A. Tamburri, Willem-Jan van den Heuvel
ICSA1