Modern production pipelines have a lot of dynamic human fueled workflows with orchestration - having a common syntax definitely helps those in the control room

Modern production pipelines have a lot of dynamic human fueled workflows with orchestration - having a common syntax definitely helps those in the control room and operating systems and tools have a common way to exchange - especially in a remote setup. The netflix production team also has done a great job of standardizing the vocabulary across their production systems. A lot of these ontologies depend on adoption in the organization and enforcement and without that these efforts really are show and of low utility.