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F*CK DATA MESH: The Contrarian’s Take on Data Tech – Book Review

06 Fri Mar 2026

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The Bonfire of the Vacuous

Review: The Great Data Schism – Why the ‘Schmesh’ is a Schmess

Paula Prada Price, New College Tech Review, Notting Hill, Friday, 6th March 2026

Martyn Jones’s F*CK DATA MESH is a bracing, profane, and essential Broadside against the Silicon Valley hype machine.*

In the glittering circus of modern data tech, where vendors hawk “revolutionary” architectures like snake oil at a Silicon Valley swap meet, Martyn Jones has lobbed what can only be described as a literary Molotov cocktail titled F*CK DATA MESH: The Far Side of Data, Information, and Knowledge. It’s less a book than a gleefully profane haymaker aimed squarely at the jaw of the industry’s latest sacred cow. And reader, it connects.

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Why Data Mesh is Not the Future of Data Management – Book Review

06 Fri Mar 2026

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The Bonfire of the Vacuous

Review: The Great Data Schism – Why the ‘Mesh’ is a Mess

Lady Amanda Percival, The Wired Wire, Kensington, Friday, 6th March 2026

Martyn Jones’s F*CK DATA MESH is a bracing, profane, and essential Broadside against the Silicon Valley hype machine.*

In the hushed boardrooms of the Fortune 500, “Data Mesh” has become the latest secular religion. It promises a decentralized utopia where data is treated as a product and domain owners are liberated from the “monolithic” tyranny of the central data warehouse. But according to Martyn Jones, a man whose career has seen the rise and fall of more tech fads than a McKinsey slide deck, this new paradigm is less of a revolution and more of a “fraudulent flim-flam sauce” served up by consultants looking for their next utilization spike.

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F*CK DATA MESH: A Critical Look at Data Trends – Book Review

05 Thu Mar 2026

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The Bonfire of the Clowns

F*CK DATA MESH: A polemic against fashionable nonsense in the data economy

Alicia Altmann, The Middle Digital Review, Chicago, 5th March 2026.

In the technology industry, few phrases age faster than the latest architectural revolution. “Serverless”, “big data”, “blockchain”, each arrives with evangelical certainty before quietly settling into the background noise of enterprise IT. Into this cycle of hype steps Martyn Jones’s gleefully abrasive book, F*CK DATA MESH: The Far Side of Data, Information, and Knowledge*. Its title alone signals that this is less a manual than a polemic: a sharply written protest against what the author sees as the fashionable amnesia of modern data discourse.

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F*ck Data Mesh: Martyn Jones’s Hilarious Haymaker at Tech’s Data Delusions – Book Review

05 Thu Mar 2026

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The Bonfire of the Imbeciles

F*ck Data Mesh: Martyn Jones’s Hilarious Haymaker at Tech’s Data Delusions

Review by Bella Carmela, WiredWiredWired, Silicon Valley, Thursday 5th March 2026

In the hyper-connected, AI-obsessed circus of modern enterprise tech, where every startup pitches a “revolutionary” data paradigm like it’s the next iPhone, Martyn Jones drops a bomb: Fck Data Mesh*. Subtitled The Far Side of Data, Information, and Knowledge, this 2025 manifesto isn’t your typical dry treatise on ETL pipelines or cloud migrations. It’s a rollicking, profane takedown of the industry’s sacred cows… Data Mesh, Lakehouses, and the endless hype cycle that turns solid data strategies into vaporware. Written with the acerbic wit of a Welsh data veteran who’s seen it all (from mainframes to metadata meltdowns), Jones channels the spirit of Hunter S. Thompson meets Dilbert, urging businesses to wake up before their next “transformative” initiative sinks another billion into the swamp.

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Mario Benedetti, 1920 to 2009 – 2026/01/17

16 Fri Jan 2026

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Mario Benedetti, 1920 to 2009

Martyn Rhisiart Jones

First edition: The Jewish Chronicle – 19th May 2009

Revised edition: Friday 16th January 2026

Benedetti died at his home in Montevideo on Sunday, 17th May 2009, at the age of eighty-eight. With his passing, Latin America loses one of its most prolific and affectionately regarded literary voices of the postwar era. He was a figure whose work spanned more than eighty volumes across poetry, fiction, essays, drama, and journalism. His work captured the quotidian rhythms of urban life, the ache of exile, and the stubborn commitments of the left. He wrote with an unpretentious directness that endeared him to generations of readers.

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The Glorious Books of Martyn

11 Sun Jan 2026

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Martyn Rhisiart Jones, with the capable assistance of Amy Grok McGrockicle

Madrid, Sunday 11 January 2026

Introduction to the Collected Reviews of Martyn Jones

In an age awash with earnest manifestos, sanctimonious tech tomes, and the relentless hum of corporate orthodoxy, Martyn Jones arrives. He comes like a gleeful heretic at the cathedral door. He is armed with profanity and philosophical bite. He also has an irrepressible instinct for the absurd.

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Weaving the Dragon’s Data: A Welsh-Inspired Tale for Enterprise Architects in the New Year – 2026/01/01

08 Thu Jan 2026

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Martyn Muses – 2026/01/01

Martyn Rhisiart Jones

Location, 22nd December 2025

Weaving the Dragon’s Data: A Welsh-Inspired Tale for Enterprise Architects in the New Year – 2026/01/01

The calendar turns to a fresh page in this crisp January of 2026. We, enterprise data and information architects, stand at a new threshold. Another year welcomes us, brimming with digital transformations. Data lakes swell like the River Taff after a storm. Information architectures evolve like the ancient mountain tops of Snowdonia. But amidst the algorithms and schemas, let’s pause for a moment of whimsy. What if we drew inspiration from the misty realms of Welsh myths and legends? Wales, that land of dragons and bards, offers a tapestry of stories. These stories mirror our quests: taming chaotic data into structured wisdom. They are about preserving cultural legacies in vast repositories. They ignite innovation from the sparks of history. In this Happy New Year ode, we’ll begin a narrative journey through Welsh lore. It is infused with the spirits of its iconic figures. Dylan Thomas, Dannie Abse, Richard Burton, Shirley Bassey, Paul Robeson, and Gwynfor Evans are part of this infusion. These spirits illuminate the art of data stewardship.

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Stricken als geheime Sprache der Frauen

18 Thu Dec 2025

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Martyn Rhisiart Jones und Lila de Alba

Oza-Cesuras, Europa 17. Dezember 2025

Als Garn sprechen lernte

Die Soldaten beachteten sie nicht.

Sie saß dort, wo Frauen seit jeher saßen. Am Fenster, an der Straße. Nahe den Eisenadern der Eisenbahnlinie. Ihre Hände waren beschäftigt, ihr Blick sanft. Liebe lag in ihren Augen. Das leise Klicken und Klappern der Nadeln klang wie Regen auf dem Schiefer von Bethesda. In Wales hätte man es Cynefin genannt, die Geborgenheit des Vertrauten. In Galicien, wie es seit jeher üblich ist. Magisch, geheimnisvoll und achtsam.

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Die Zukunft der Daten: Warum Data Warehousing gewinnt

05 Fri Dec 2025

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Warum Data Warehousing die langweilige, brutale und zugleich faszinierende Zukunft der Daten ist

Martyn Rhisiart Jones

A Coruña, 12.05.2025

Der moderne Daten-Stack hat sich in ein Cyberpunk-Rohrleitungssystem verwandelt: endlose Rohre speisen weitere Rohre, Schichten übereinandergestapelt wie ein Dachausbau, den jemand mit TikTok-Kenntnissen im Bereich Tischlerei errichtet hat. Irgendwo beharrt ein CTO immer noch darauf, dass der Data Lake „jedes Quartal einen geschäftlichen Mehrwert liefern wird“ – und klingt dabei so ruhig, als würde er mit seinem Entführer verhandeln.

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Agentur-KI

04 Thu Dec 2025

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Martyn Rhisiart Jones – 4/12/2025

Agentur-KI

Agentur-KI markiert den Übergang von reaktiven Chatbots zu autonomen, zielorientierten Systemen, die planen, logisch denken, Tools nutzen und Aufgaben mit minimalem menschlichen Eingriff ausführen können. Sie ist kein höflicher Assistent, sondern ein proaktives System, das Ihren Urlaub bucht, Preise aushandelt und Ihre Transfers organisiert, noch bevor Sie Ihr Getränk ausgetrunken haben.

Doch Autonomie birgt Risiken.

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