Alex Hutter, Alexandre Bertails, Claire Wang, Haoyuan He, Kishore Banala, Peter Royal, Shervin Afshar – Model Once, Represent Everywhere: UDA (Unified Data Architecture) at Netflix:
„Core business concepts like ‘actor’ or ‘movie’ are modeled in many places: in our Enterprise GraphQL Gateway powering internal apps, in our asset management platform storing media assets, in our media computing platform that powers encoding pipelines, to name a few. Each system models these concepts differently and in isolation, with little coordination or shared understanding.“
„UDA needs to solve the data integration problem. We needed a data catalog unified with a schema registry, but with a hard requirement for semantic integration. Connecting business concepts to schemas and data containers in a graph-like structure, grounded in strong semantic foundations, naturally led us to consider a knowledge graph approach. We chose RDF and SHACL as the foundation for UDA’s knowledge graph.“