Target Audience: Chief Data Officers, Enterprise Architects, and Domain Leads
Estimated Read Time: 10 min01Domain Ownership & Data Product Contracts
Data Mesh in Fabric decentralizes data ownership to business domains (e.g. Sales, Finance, Supply Chain) while maintaining central platform guardrails. Each domain builds, owns, and operates its data products within dedicated Fabric Domains, exposing curated Gold tables and semantic models as versioned data products.
Implementation & Verification Checklist
- Define domain boundaries and assign accountable business/technical domain owners
- Publish explicit data product SLA contracts, update frequencies, and schema definitions
- Expose Gold data products via OneLake zero-copy shortcuts to downstream consuming domains
- Enforce central security, networking, and compliance guardrails across all domain workspaces
02Federated Cataloging & Interoperability
Enable cross-domain data discovery using Microsoft Purview Hub and Fabric domain cataloging. Ensure consuming domains access data through read-only OneLake shortcuts, eliminating redundant ETL copying while enforcing source domain security policies.
Implementation & Verification Checklist
- Register all domain data products in the Purview data catalog
- Standardize common dimension keys (e.g. Customer ID, Date dimension) across domains
- Monitor cross-domain OneLake shortcut access and compute consumption