Building a component because the literature has a name for one is cosplay, not architecture.

Data mesh's sidecar is a useful *word*: it names why security, audit, and quality recur together on every data product. In most real deployments it exists only on the slide deck. That's where it belongs.

The test: made physical, does it make anyone's work easier this quarter? https://kore-nordmann.de/blog/the-sidecar-that-shouldnt-exist.html