Comment by stathibus
2 days ago
At a place like Netflix where the product has been fundamentally the same for almost a decade, installing this kind of red tape is great for job security
2 days ago
At a place like Netflix where the product has been fundamentally the same for almost a decade, installing this kind of red tape is great for job security
> installing this kind of red tape is great for job security
It really doesn't, and that's not the point. This is for business entities that are larger than teams.
It's way worse to have a million different schemas with no way to share information. And then you have people everywhere banging on your door asking for your representation, you have to help them, you have to update it in their systems. God forbid you've got to migrate things...
If your entity type happens to be one that is core to the business, it's almost a neverending struggle. And when you find different teams took your definition and twisted it, when you're supposed to be the source of truth, and teams downstream of them consume it in the bastardized way...
This project sounds like a dream. I hope it goes well for Netflix and that they can evangelize it more.