Bio

Zhamak is a technology director at ThoughtWorks with a focus on distributed systems and modern data platform architecture at Enterprise. She is a member of ThoughtWorks global Technology Advisory Board and contributes to the creation of ThoughtWorks Technology Radar. Zhamak has worked as a software engineer and architect for over 20 years in the areas of distributed computing communications, as well as embedded device technologies and she has contributed to multiple patents in this area.

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Architecture: The Hard Parts (One Day Pre-conference Workshop)
by Neal Ford, zhamak dehghani

This is a pre-conference workshop. Click for details.

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Data Mesh Paradigm Shift in Data Platform Architecture (Talk, Main Conference)
by zhamak dehghani, Arif Wider

Many enterprises are investing in their next generation data platform, with the hope of democratizing data at scale to provide business insights and ultimately make automated intelligent decisions. Data platforms based on the data lake architecture have common failure modes that lead to unfulfilled promises at scale.

In this talk Zhamak shares her observations on the failure modes of a centralized paradigm of a data lake, or its predecessor data warehouse.

She introduces Data Mesh, the next generation data platforms, that shifts to a paradigm that draws from modern distributed architecture: considering domains as the first class concern, applying platform thinking to create self-serve data infrastructure, and treating data as a product.