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Data Engineers of Netflix?—?Interview with Kevin Wylie

The Netflix TechBlog

In this post, Kevin talks about his extensive experience in content analytics at Netflix since joining more than 10 years ago. What keeps me engaged and enjoying data engineering is giving super-suits and adrenaline shots to analytics engineers and data scientists. What drew you to Netflix?

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Driving down the cost of Big-Data analytics - All Things Distributed

All Things Distributed

Driving down the cost of Big-Data analytics. By Werner Vogels on 18 August 2011 04:00 PM. The Amazon Elastic MapReduce (EMR) team announced today the ability to seamlessly use Amazon EC2 Spot Instances with their service, significantly driving down the cost of data analytics in the cloud. Comments ().

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New AWS feature: Run your website from Amazon S3 - All Things.

All Things Distributed

By Werner Vogels on 17 February 2011 07:45 AM. Driving down the cost of Big-Data analytics. All Things Distributed. Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. New AWS feature: Run your website from Amazon S3. Comments (). Introducing the AWS South America (Sao Paulo) Region.

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The Amazon.com 2010 Shareholder Letter Focusses on Technology.

All Things Distributed

By Werner Vogels on 27 April 2011 12:51 AM. We use high-performance transactions systems, complex rendering and object caching, workflow and queuing systems, business intelligence and data analytics, machine learning and pattern recognition, neural networks and probabilistic decision making, and a wide variety of other techniques.

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Introducing the AWS South America - All Things Distributed

All Things Distributed

By Werner Vogels on 14 December 2011 07:00 PM. Driving down the cost of Big-Data analytics. Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Expanding the Cloud â?? Introducing the AWS South America (Sao Paulo) Region. Comments (). Introducing the AWS South America (Sao Paulo) Region.

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DROAM - Dreaming about Cheap Data Roaming - All Things.

All Things Distributed

By Werner Vogels on 11 January 2011 10:20 AM. Starting on January 1, 2011, the service, which is called DROAM, is open to use for everyone. Driving down the cost of Big-Data analytics. All Things Distributed. Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. DROAM - Dreaming about Cheap Data Roaming.

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Expanding the Cloud - Introducing Amazon ElastiCache - All Things.

All Things Distributed

By Werner Vogels on 22 August 2011 07:40 PM. Driving down the cost of Big-Data analytics. All Things Distributed. Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Expanding the Cloud - Introducing Amazon ElastiCache. Comments (). Introducing the AWS South America (Sao Paulo) Region.

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