A Framework for Understanding Data Consumers and Producers
- John Wills
- Dec 28, 2025
- 1 min read
Something has been bothering me about data products. It’s the point at which the consumer of a data product immediately switches to also being a producer. We talk a lot about the binary roles of either consumer or producer when, in reality, the vast majority of people are both at the same time.
I know data product and data mesh purists may argue that data products are more formal and it should not be possible for someone to easily create a derivative set of data from original sources and call it a data product.