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Netflix Tackles Data Deletion at Scale with Centralized Platform Architecture
InfoQ's coverage of a QCon talk on a problem almost nobody designs for up front: how do you actually delete data, correctly and completely, across dozens of heterogeneous storage systems, at a scale where 76.8 billion row deletions across 1,300 datasets is a normal workload? Netflix's centralized deletion platform is a reminder that "delete" is a distributed systems problem with its own consistency and observability requirements, not an afterthought bolted onto each service. Especially relevant if you're anywhere near GDPR or CCPA compliance work and have been treating deletion as someone else's problem.