The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 25, 2019

Now, imagine yourself in the role of a software engineer responsible for a micro-service which publishes data consumed by few critical customer facing services (e.g. You are about to make structural changes to the data and want to know who and what downstream to your service will be impacted.

Infrastructure 225

Infrastructure Big Data Transportation Architecture 225

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

By Abhinaya Shetty , Bharath Mummadisetty In the inaugural blog post of this series, we introduced you to the state of our pipelines before Psyberg and the challenges with incremental processing that led us to create the Psyberg framework within Netflix’s Membership and Finance data engineering team.

Processing 234

Processing Data Engineering Efficiency Analytics 234

The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Let’s define some requirements that we are interested in delivering to the Netflix data engineers or anyone who would like to schedule a workflow with some external assets in it. Conclusions This new method available for Netflix data engineers makes workflow management easier, more transparent and more reliable.

Storage 210

Storage Data Engineering Testing Code 210

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

by Shefali Vyas Dalal AWS re:Invent is a couple weeks away and our engineers & leaders are thrilled to be in attendance yet again this year! Technology advancements in content creation and consumption have also increased its data footprint. We’ve compiled our speaking events below so you know what we’ve been working on.

AWS 38

AWS Entertainment Open Source Benchmarking 38

The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 2, 2021

At Netflix, our data scientists span many areas of technical specialization, including experimentation, causal inference, machine learning, NLP, modeling, and optimization. Together with data analytics and data engineering, we comprise the larger, centralized Data Science and Engineering group.

Analytics 216

Analytics C++ Innovation Engineering 216

The Netflix TechBlog

JULY 21, 2022

More importantly, the low resource availability or “out of memory” scenario is one of the common reasons for crashes/kills. We at Netflix, as a streaming service running on millions of devices, have a tremendous amount of data about device capabilities/characteristics and runtime data in our big data platform.

Big Data 188

Big Data Cache Engineering Data Engineering 188

The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 7, 2024

Without these integrations, projects would be stuck at the prototyping stage, or they would have to be maintained as outliers outside the systems maintained by our engineering teams, incurring unsustainable operational overhead. Importantly, all the use cases were engineered by practitioners themselves.

Systems 235

Systems Media Cache Open Source 235

O'Reilly

FEBRUARY 18, 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. there’s a Python library for virtually anything a developer or data scientist might need to do. In aggregate, data engineering usage declined 8% in 2019.

Software Architecture 145

Software Architecture DevOps Data Engineering Architecture 145

The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 21, 2020

Some of the optimizations are prerequisites for a high-performance data warehouse. Sometimes Data Engineers write downstream ETLs on ingested data to optimize the data/metadata layouts to make other ETL processes cheaper and faster. It decides what to do and when to do in response to an incoming event.

Storage 212

Storage Latency Efficiency Data Engineering 212

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. The scheduler on-call has to closely monitor the system during non-business hours.

Java 211

Java Scalability Traffic Architecture 211

VoltDB

DECEMBER 11, 2024

Talent and Expertise Shortages The rapid evolution of edge computing technologies has outpaced the availability of skilled professionals who can design, implement, and manage these systems effectively. Key issues include: A shortage of edge-native data engineers and architects. High costs of training and retaining talent.

IoT 52

IoT Energy Logistics Latency 52

High Scalability

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

Sisu Data is looking for machine learning engineers who are eager to deliver their features end-to-end, from Jupyter notebook to production, and provide actionable insights to businesses based on their first-party, streaming, and structured relational data. Apply here. Try the 30-day free trial!

Education 22

Education Java Software Engineering Engineering 22

The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

Throughout this evolution, we’ve been able to maintain high availability and a consistent message delivery rate, with Pushy successfully maintaining 99.999% reliability for message delivery over the last few months. When our partners want to deliver a message to a device, it’s our job to make sure they can do so.

Latency 234

Latency Cache Tuning Efficiency 234

High Scalability

OCTOBER 29, 2019

Sisu Data is looking for machine learning engineers who are eager to deliver their features end-to-end, from Jupyter notebook to production, and provide actionable insights to businesses based on their first-party, streaming, and structured relational data. Apply here. Try the 30-day free trial!

Education 22

Education Java Software Engineering Engineering 22

High Scalability

JANUARY 22, 2020

Sisu Data is looking for machine learning engineers who are eager to deliver their features end-to-end, from Jupyter notebook to production, and provide actionable insights to businesses based on their first-party, streaming, and structured relational data. Apply here. Try the 30-day free trial!

Education 22

Education Java Software Engineering Engineering 22

High Scalability

JANUARY 7, 2020

Sisu Data is looking for machine learning engineers who are eager to deliver their features end-to-end, from Jupyter notebook to production, and provide actionable insights to businesses based on their first-party, streaming, and structured relational data. Apply here. Try the 30-day free trial!

Education 21

Education Java Software Engineering Engineering 21

High Scalability

DECEMBER 12, 2019

Sisu Data is looking for machine learning engineers who are eager to deliver their features end-to-end, from Jupyter notebook to production, and provide actionable insights to businesses based on their first-party, streaming, and structured relational data. Apply here. Try the 30-day free trial!

Education 21

Education Java Software Engineering Engineering 21

High Scalability

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

Sisu Data is looking for machine learning engineers who are eager to deliver their features end-to-end, from Jupyter notebook to production, and provide actionable insights to businesses based on their first-party, streaming, and structured relational data. Apply here. Try the 30-day free trial!

Education 21

Education Java Software Engineering Engineering 21

High Scalability

MARCH 3, 2020

Sisu Data is looking for machine learning engineers who are eager to deliver their features end-to-end, from Jupyter notebook to production, and provide actionable insights to businesses based on their first-party, streaming, and structured relational data. Apply here. Try the 30-day free trial!

Education 114

Education Engineering Games Java 114

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

High Scalability

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

Sisu Data is looking for machine learning engineers who are eager to deliver their features end-to-end, from Jupyter notebook to production, and provide actionable insights to businesses based on their first-party, streaming, and structured relational data. Apply here. Try the 30-day free trial!

Education 113

Education Engineering Games Java 113

High Scalability

FEBRUARY 9, 2020

Sisu Data is looking for machine learning engineers who are eager to deliver their features end-to-end, from Jupyter notebook to production, and provide actionable insights to businesses based on their first-party, streaming, and structured relational data. Apply here. Try the 30-day free trial!

Education 108

Education Engineering Games Java 108

High Scalability

MARCH 17, 2020

Sisu Data is looking for machine learning engineers who are eager to deliver their features end-to-end, from Jupyter notebook to production, and provide actionable insights to businesses based on their first-party, streaming, and structured relational data. Apply here. Try the 30-day free trial!

Education 105

Education Engineering Java Servers 105

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

by Shefali Vyas Dalal AWS re:Invent is a couple weeks away and our engineers & leaders are thrilled to be in attendance yet again this year! Technology advancements in content creation and consumption have also increased its data footprint. We’ve compiled our speaking events below so you know what we’ve been working on.

AWS 100

AWS Entertainment Open Source Benchmarking 100

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

by Shefali Vyas Dalal AWS re:Invent is a couple weeks away and our engineers & leaders are thrilled to be in attendance yet again this year! Technology advancements in content creation and consumption have also increased its data footprint. We’ve compiled our speaking events below so you know what we’ve been working on.

AWS 100

AWS Entertainment Open Source Benchmarking 100

High Scalability

MARCH 24, 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 Engineering Big Data 105

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

MARCH 30, 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 Engineering Big Data 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

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

AWS 75

AWS Availability Scalability Infrastructure 75

The Netflix TechBlog

MAY 26, 2020

Network Availability: The expected continued growth of our ecosystem makes it difficult to understand our network bottlenecks and potential limits we may be reaching. As with any sustainable engineering design, focusing on simplicity is very important. The enriched data allows us to analyze networks across a variety of dimensions (e.g.

Network 154

Network Tuning AWS Traffic 154

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

All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 7, 2015

However, the data infrastructure to collect, store and process data is geared toward developers (e.g., In AWS’ quest to enable the best data storage options for engineers, we have built several innovative database solutions like Amazon RDS, Amazon RDS for Aurora, Amazon DynamoDB, and Amazon Redshift.

Cloud 112

Cloud Big Data AWS Analytics 112

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

O'Reilly

JULY 15, 2020

Software engineers comprise the survey audience’s single largest cluster, over one quarter (27%) of respondents (Figure 1). Adding architects and engineers, we see that roughly 55% of the respondents are directly involved in software development. Complexity is an engineering problem, and engineering problems are always about tradeoffs.

Database 145

Database Architecture Education Systems 145

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