The final step to creating a data mesh system is to appoint a federated governance body to enable interoperability and ecosystem thinking in the domain of the analyti‐ cal data. Typically, that would be a group consisting of the bounded contexts’ data and product owners and representatives of the data infrastructure platform team, as shown in Figure 16-14.

The governance group is in charge of defining the rules to ensure a healthy and inter‐ operable ecosystem. The rules have to be applied to all data products and their inter‐ faces, and it’s the group’s responsibility to ensure adherence to the rules throughout the enterprise.

Figure 16-14. The governance group, which ensures that the distributed data analytics ecosystem is interoperable, healthy, and serves the organization’s needs