Case Study: Netflix achieves unified discovery and governance at scale with DataHub

Netflix unifies discovery and governance across 14,000+ assets with DataHub

Netflix faced significant challenges as it expanded into new business areas like ads and live events, leading to fragmented data discovery, difficult governance, and complex impact analysis across its rapidly growing ecosystem. To address this, Netflix implemented DataHub, an open-source data catalog platform, to create a unified system for managing its technical assets.

By deploying DataHub as a global catalog, Netflix established a central nervous system for metadata, unifying discovery and governance for data, ML models, and software services. The solution enabled self-service search, automated governance monitoring, and clear visibility into data lineage and costs. This resulted in faster onboarding for engineers, proactive incident prevention, and a scalable foundation for future agentic AI applications, fundamentally transforming how Netflix operates at scale.

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