As Flix rapidly expanded, so did the demand for data – leading to growing pains that many scaling organisations will recognise: bottlenecks, siloed ownership, and overwhelmed central teams. This presentation takes you on Flix’s Data Road Trip, highlighting the challenges faced on the congested road of centralised data operations and how a shift toward a decentralised data organisation – powered by Data Mesh principles – cleared the path to a scalable, efficient data highway.