The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 5, 2019

Netflix’s engineering culture is predicated on Freedom & Responsibility, the idea that everyone (and every team) at Netflix is entrusted with a core responsibility and they are free to operate with freedom to satisfy their mission. All these micro-services are currently operated in AWS cloud infrastructure.

Infrastructure 185

Infrastructure Cloud Scalability AWS 185

Dynatrace

JULY 6, 2022

As organizations continue to adopt multicloud strategies, the complexity of these environments grows, increasing the need to automate cloud engineering operations to ensure organizations can enforce their policies and architecture principles. How organizations benefit from automating IT practices.

Artificial Intelligence 246

Artificial Intelligence Tuning Strategy Big Data 246

The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Meson was based on a single leader architecture with high availability. Usability Netflix is a data-driven company, where key decisions are driven by data insights, from the pixel color used on the landing page to the renewal of a TV-series. Figure 1 shows the high-level architecture.

Java 211

Java Scalability Traffic Architecture 211

Uber Engineering

AUGUST 14, 2019

Once identified, … The post Less is More: Engineering Data Warehouse Efficiency with Minimalist Design appeared first on Uber Engineering Blog. In our experience, optimizing for operational efficiency requires answering one key question: for which tables does the maintenance cost supersede utility?

Efficiency 110

Efficiency Engineering Design Storage 110

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

It also improves the engineering productivity by simplifying the existing pipelines and unlocking the new patterns. Users configure the workflow to read the data in a window (e.g. The window is set based on users’ domain knowledge so that users have a high confidence that the late arriving data will be included or will not matter (i.e.

Processing 219

Processing Big Data Efficiency Engineering 219

The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 21, 2020

This article will list some of the use cases of AutoOptimize, discuss the design principles that help enhance efficiency, and present the high-level architecture. Some of the optimizations are prerequisites for a high-performance data warehouse.

Storage 212

Storage Latency Efficiency Data Engineering 212

InfoQ

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

Uber uses Presto, an open-source distributed SQL query engine, to provide analytics across several data sources, including Apache Hive, Apache Pinot, MySQL, and Apache Kafka. To improve its performance, Uber engineers explored the advantages of dealing with quick queries, a.k.a.

Analytics 78

Analytics Open Source Engineering Performance 78

VoltDB

DECEMBER 11, 2024

Inconsistent network performance affecting data synchronization. Introduce scalable microservices architectures to distribute computational loads efficiently. Key issues include: A shortage of edge-native data engineers and architects. Limited understanding of edge-specific use cases among traditional IT teams.

IoT 52

IoT Energy Logistics Latency 52

The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 4, 2024

The rule-based classifier classifies job errors based on a set of predefined rules and provides insights for schedulers to decide whether to retry the job and for engineers to diagnose and remediate the job failure. Rule Execution Engine is responsible for matching the collected logs against a set of predefined rules.

Tuning 217

Tuning Efficiency Big Data Engineering 217

Abhishek Tiwari

JULY 20, 2019

When it comes to organising engineering teams, a popular view has been to organise your teams based on either Spotify's agile model (i.e. One thing stand-out to me is being intentional and practical about your engineering organisation design. squads, chapters, tribes, and guilds) or simply follow Amazon's two-pizza team model.

Engineering 61

Engineering Retail Airlines Healthcare 61

O'Reilly

JULY 15, 2020

Software engineers comprise the survey audience’s single largest cluster, over one quarter (27%) of respondents (Figure 1). If you combine the different architectural roles—i.e., Adding architects and engineers, we see that roughly 55% of the respondents are directly involved in software development. Figure 1: Respondent roles.

Database 145

Database Architecture Education Systems 145

The Netflix TechBlog

MAY 26, 2020

As with any sustainable engineering design, focusing on simplicity is very important. Summary Providing Network Insight into the Cloud Network Infrastructure using VPC Flow Logs at hyper scale is made possible with the Sqooby architecture.

Network 154

Network Tuning AWS Traffic 154

High Scalability

APRIL 14, 2020

Scrapinghub is hiring a Senior Software Engineer (Big Data/AI). You will be designing and implementing distributed systems : large-scale web crawling platform, integrating Deep Learning based web data extraction components, working on queue algorithms, large datasets, creating a development platform for other company departments, etc.

Education 105

Education Software Engineering Scalability Engineering 105

High Scalability

MAY 12, 2020

Scrapinghub is hiring a Senior Software Engineer (Big Data/AI). You will be designing and implementing distributed systems : large-scale web crawling platform, integrating Deep Learning based web data extraction components, working on queue algorithms, large datasets, creating a development platform for other company departments, etc.

Education 102

Education Software Engineering Scalability Engineering 102

High Scalability

APRIL 28, 2020

Scrapinghub is hiring a Senior Software Engineer (Big Data/AI). You will be designing and implementing distributed systems : large-scale web crawling platform, integrating Deep Learning based web data extraction components, working on queue algorithms, large datasets, creating a development platform for other company departments, etc.

Education 102

Education Software Engineering Scalability Engineering 102

High Scalability

MAY 26, 2020

Scrapinghub is hiring a Senior Software Engineer (Big Data/AI). You will be designing and implementing distributed systems : large-scale web crawling platform, integrating Deep Learning based web data extraction components, working on queue algorithms, large datasets, creating a development platform for other company departments, etc.

Education 100

Education AWS Software Engineering Scalability 100

O'Reilly

MARCH 2, 2020

This year’s growth in Python usage was buoyed by its increasing popularity among data scientists and machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI) engineers. Software architecture, infrastructure, and operations are each changing rapidly. Key survey results: The C-suite is engaged with data quality.

Artificial Intelligence 25

Artificial Intelligence Software Architecture Programming C++ 25

O'Reilly

FEBRUARY 2, 2020

Collaboration between AI developers and operations teams will lead to growing pains on both sides, especially since many data scientists and AI researchers have had limited exposure to, or knowledge of, software engineering. O’Reilly Strata Data & AI Conference , San Jose, March 15-18.

Software Architecture 99

Software Architecture Monitoring Software Engineering Code 99

Simform

JANUARY 8, 2023

Data ingestion is the foremost layer in a data engineering pipeline, acting as a vital pillar in the overall analytics architecture. Thus, it is essential to implement data ingestion just right. Here is everything you need to know to take the first step toward a flawless data pipeline.

Data Engineering 52

Data Engineering Analytics Architecture Engineering 52

Abhishek Tiwari

JULY 12, 2018

In recent times, in order to gain valuable insights or to develop the data-driven products companies such as Netflix, Spotify, Uber, AirBnB have built internal data pipelines. If built correctly, data pipelines can offer strategic advantages to the business. It can be used to power new analytics, insight, and product features.

Latency 63

Latency Analytics Scalability Engineering 63

Adrian Cockcroft

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

SUS206 Sustainability and AWS silicon  — Kamran Khan AWS Senior Product Manager Inferential/Trainium/FPGA, David Chaiken Pinterest Chief Architect, and Paul Mazurkiewicz AWS Senior Principal Engineer. SUS302 Optimizing architectures for sustainability — Katja Philipp AWS SA and Szymon Kochanski AWS SA.

AWS 64

AWS Energy Architecture Programming 64

Abhishek Tiwari

DECEMBER 27, 2017

A common theme across all these trends is to remove the complexity by simplifying data management as a whole. In 2018, we anticipate that ETL will either lose relevance or the ETL process will disintegrate and be consumed by new data architectures. Unified data management architecture.

Big Data 49

Big Data Artificial Intelligence Storage Hardware 49

Abhishek Tiwari

DECEMBER 27, 2017

Kubernetes has emerged as go to container orchestration platform for data engineering teams. In 2018, a widespread adaptation of Kubernetes for big data processing is anitcipated. Organisations are already using Kubernetes for a variety of workloads [1] [2] and data workloads are up next.

Big Data 63

Big Data Storage Benchmarking Hardware 63

Simform

JANUARY 25, 2023

Businesses can unlock the value of data only after it is transformed into actionable insights and when those insights are delivered promptly. But implementing such robust data pipelines can be complex and challenging. This blog discusses all the ins and outs of building data pipelines and how they can help strengthen businesses.

Architecture 52

Architecture Data Engineering Engineering 52

InfoQ

DECEMBER 29, 2023

Zendesk reduced its data storage costs by over 80% by migrating from DynamoDB to a tiered storage solution using MySQL and S3. The company considered different storage technologies and decided to combine the relational database and the object store to strike a balance between querybility and scalability while keeping the costs down.

Storage 137

Storage Scalability Database Technology 137

InfoQ

APRIL 7, 2021

Recently, Google announced A2 Virtual Machines (VMs)' general availability based on the NVIDIA Ampere A100 Tensor Core GPUs in Compute Engine.

Virtualization 57

Virtualization Google Availability Engineering 57

The Symphonia

JUNE 19, 2018

I was fortunate to be both presenting a 2-day workshop (on AWS Serverless Architectures and Continuous Deployment) as well as hosting a full-day Serverless track of talks. One of the catalysts for starting Symphonia was the massive interest in my article on “ Serverless Architectures ” that is published on Martin Fowler’s site.

Serverless 40

Serverless AWS DevOps Open Source 40

InfoQ

JULY 14, 2023

Mei-Chin Tsai, Vinod discuss the internal architecture of Azure Cosmos DB and how it achieves high availability, low latency, and scalability. By Mei-Chin Tsai, Vinod Sridharan

Latency 52

Latency Azure Availability Scalability 52

Simform

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Stream processing has become a core part of enterprise data architecture today due to the explosive growth of data from sources such as IoT sensors, security logs, and web applications. This blog discusses the topic of stream processing in detail to help you navigate its landscape with ease.

Processing 52

Processing IoT Architecture Data Engineering 52

InfoQ

APRIL 15, 2024

He specifically delved into Venice DB, the NoSQL data store used for feature persistence. At the QCon London 2024 conference, Félix GV from LinkedIn discussed the AI/ML platform powering the company’s products. By Rafal Gancarz

Artificial Intelligence 110

Artificial Intelligence Big Data Data Engineering Latency 110

Abhishek Tiwari

DECEMBER 23, 2017

Data integration generally requires in-depth domain knowledge, a strong understanding of data schemas and underlying relationships. This can be time-consuming and bit challenging if you are dealing with hundreds of data sources and thousands of event types (see my recent article on ELT architecture ).

Architecture 40

Architecture Engineering Processing Code 40

InfoQ

AUGUST 7, 2024

Canva evaluated different data massaging solutions for its Product Analytics Platform, including the combination of AWS SNS and SQS, MKS, and Amazon KDS, and eventually chose the latter, primarily based on its much lower costs. The company compared many aspects of these solutions, like performance, maintenance effort, and cost.

AWS 88

AWS Analytics Performance Data Engineering 88

Abhishek Tiwari

DECEMBER 22, 2017

Cheap storage and on-demand compute in the cloud coupled with the emergence of new big data frameworks and tools are forcing us to rethink the whole ETL and data warehousing architecture. In addition, this approach is more tailored for both structured as well unstructured data sets. Classic ETL. Stateless and elastic.

Big Data 40

Big Data Retail Storage Google 40

InfoQ

DECEMBER 20, 2023

InfoQ is delighted to announce a new two-day conference, InfoQ Dev Summit Boston 2024, taking place June 24-25, 2024. This event is designed to help senior developers navigate their immediate development challenges, focusing exclusively on the technical aspects that matter right now. By Artenisa Chatziou

Development 86

Development Design Data Engineering Scalability 86

InfoQ

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

HubSpot adopted routing messages over multiple Kafka topics (called swimlanes) for the same producer to avoid the build-up in the consumer group lag and prioritize the processing of real-time traffic.

Processing 84

Processing Traffic Data Engineering Scalability 84

InfoQ

JULY 3, 2023

LinkedIn introduced Couchbase as a centralized caching tier for scaling member profile reads to handle increasing traffic that has outgrown their existing database cluster. The new solution achieved over 99% hit rate, helped reduce tail latencies by more than 60% and costs by 10% annually. By Rafal Gancarz

Cache 86

Cache Latency Traffic Database 86

InfoQ

AUGUST 3, 2023

AWS recently announced the general availability (GA) of Amazon EC2 P5 instances powered by the latest NVIDIA H100 Tensor Core GPUs suitable for users that require high performance and scalability in AI/ML and HPC workloads. The GA is a follow-up to the earlier announcement of the development of the infrastructure. By Steef-Jan Wiggers

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AWS Availability Scalability Infrastructure 75