M3D stands for Metadata Driven Development and is a cloud and platform-agnostic framework for the automated creation, management, and governance of metadata and data flows from multiple sources to multiple target systems. It is a tool comprised of two components: m3d-API and m3d-engine. At Adidas the framework is used for the creation of data lake environments, management and governance of metadata, data flows from multiple sources and algorithms as data frame transformations. It is feeding 500+ tables and over 900 views. Author: Jorge Cespedes (Adidas)