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This seems wildly pointless and pedantic

I think the point is it's a technical structure that supports a very large organization's unified datastore, despite the fact that ownership of the structure of that datastore is decentralized and the responsibility for populating that datastore is maybe even more decentralized.

Very large organizations need technical solutions to organizational problems, especially when there are many loosely coupled teams interacting in one way or another.

Every large company will grow a pointless and pedantic way to organise data. Might just as well make it explicit.

Conway’s Law would have you believe that this is because every large company will grow a pointless and pedantic org chart. :P

(Yeah yeah I know that was technically about software architecture but code is data soooo…)

To the contrary - it's anything but pointless.

It tends to become pendantic to combat entropy.

If anything years in corporate taught me that something might be pedantic, pointless and still not combat entropy very well

Oh, it doesn't necessarily work. But it's a natural response, and typically the alternative is even worse!

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