#130 Making the Data Quantum Leap - Starting from the Data Quantum at PayPal - Interview w/ Jean-Georges Perrin (JGP)

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Sign up for Data Mesh Understanding's free roundtable and introduction programs here: https://landing.datameshunderstanding.com/Please Rate and Review us on your podcast app of choice!If you want to be a guest or give feedback (suggestions for topics, comments, etc.), please see hereEpisode list and links to all available episode transcripts here.Provided as a free resource by Data Mesh Understanding / Scott Hirleman. Get in touch with Scott on LinkedIn if you want to chat data mesh.Transcript for this episode (link) provided by Starburst. See their Data Mesh Summit recordings here and their great data mesh resource center here. You can download their Data Mesh for Dummies e-book (info gated) here.Data Mesh at PayPal blog post: https://medium.com/paypal-tech/the-next-generation-of-data-platforms-is-the-data-mesh-b7df4b825522JGP's All Things Open talk (free virtual registration): https://2022.allthingsopen.org/sessions/building-a-data-mesh-with-open-source-technologies/JGP's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jgperrin/JGP's Twitter: @jgperrin / https://twitter.com/jgperrinJGP's YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/JeanGeorgesPerrinJGP's Website: https://jgp.ai/In this episode, Scott interviewed Jean-Georges Perrin AKA JGP, Intelligence Platform Lead at PayPal. JGP is probably the first guest to lean into using "data quantum" instead of "data product". JGP did want to emphasize that as of now, he was only discussing the implementation for his team the GCSC IA (Global Credit Risk, Seller Risk, Collections Intelligence Automation) within PayPal.Some key takeaways/thoughts from JGP's point of view:Data mesh as it's been laid out by Zhamak obviously leaves a lot of room for innovation. For some, that's great. For others, they want the blueprint. And it's okay to wait for the blueprint. But JGP and team are excited...