Netflix’s Unified Data Architecture: Model Once, Represent Everywhere with Alex Bertails

Netflix’s Unified Data Architecture: Model Once, Represent Everywhere with Alex Bertails

Author: ServiceNow Community Podcasts November 19, 2025 Duration: 1:05:02

A few months ago, Netflix engineering published a blog post titled “Model Once, Represent Everywhere: UDA (Unified Data Architecture)” which is an RDF knowledge graph connecting domain models to data through mappings, all grounded in-house metamodel. In this episode, Tim and Juan sit down with Alex Bertails to understand the motivations behind UDA, how it’s implemented and the value that Netflix is deriving from it. If you are interested in how to take metadata, knowledge graphs and RDF to the next level, this episode is for you!

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