The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 7, 2024

Data: Fast Data Our main data lake is hosted on S3, organized as Apache Iceberg tables. For ETL and other heavy lifting of data, we mainly rely on Apache Spark. In addition to Spark, we want to support last-mile data processing in Python, addressing use cases such as feature transformations, batch inference, and training.

Systems 231

Systems Media Cache Open Source 231

O'Reilly

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

Usage specific to Python as a programming language grew by just 4% in 2019; by contrast, usage that had to do with Python and ML—be it in the context of AI, deep learning, and natural language processing, or in combination with any of several popular ML/AI frameworks—grew by 9%. In aggregate, data engineering usage declined 8% in 2019.

Software Architecture 142

Software Architecture DevOps Data Engineering Architecture 142

All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 7, 2015

In such a data intensive environment, making key business decisions such as running marketing and sales campaigns, logistic planning, financial analysis and ad targeting require deriving insights from these data. However, the data infrastructure to collect, store and process data is geared toward developers (e.g.,

Cloud 113

Cloud Big Data AWS Analytics 113

The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

The voice service then constructs a message for the device and places it on the message queue, which is then processed and sent to Pushy to deliver to the device. Where aws ends and the internet begins is an exercise left to the reader. This initial functionality was built out for FireTVs and was expanded from there.

Latency 230

Latency Cache Tuning Efficiency 230

High Scalability

MAY 26, 2020

Learn the stuff they don't teach you in the AWS docs. Filter out the distracting hype, and focus on the parts of AWS that you'd be foolish not to use. Learn the Good Parts of AWS. Created by former senior-level AWS engineers of 15 years. The result is a process that doesn't get you the best employees you could.

Education 100

Education AWS Software Engineering Scalability 100

The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 18, 2022

As the usage increased, we had to vertically scale the system to keep up and were approaching AWS instance type limits. increasing at > 100% a year, the need for a scalable data workflow orchestrator has become paramount for Netflix’s business needs. All the requests are processed via distributed queues for message passing.

Java 207

Java Scalability Traffic Architecture 207

All Things Distributed

AUGUST 24, 2012

The AWS team launched this week Amazon Glacier , a cold storage archive service at the very low price point of $0.01 Which makes this week a good moment to read up on some of the historical work around the costs of data engineering. I am in the midst of my South America tour in the beautiful but very cold Santiago, Chile.

Storage 86

Storage Hardware AWS Data Engineering 86

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 87

AWS Analytics Performance Data Engineering 87

Abhishek Tiwari

JULY 7, 2023

In the era of big data and complex data processing, data pipelines have emerged as a popular solution for managing and manipulating data. They provide a systematic approach to extract, transform, and load (ETL) data from various sources, enabling organizations to derive valuable insights.

Logistics 52

Logistics Transportation Scalability Data Engineering 52

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. This has proved especially true in the last couple of months, as we helped a company update it’s entire AWS infrastructure in a number of critical ways. Great stuff!

Serverless 40

Serverless AWS DevOps Open Source 40

All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

Previously, I wrote about Amazon QuickSight , a new service targeted at business users that aims to simplify the process of deriving insights from a wide variety of data sources quickly, easily, and at a low cost. Put simply, data is not always readily available and accessible to organizational end users.

Analytics 125

Analytics Availability Media Social Media 125

Adrian Cockcroft

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Sustainability at AWS re:Invent 2022 -All the talks and videos I could find… Las Vegas MSG Sphere under construction next door to the Venetian Sands Expo Center — Photo by Adrian This blog post is long overdue — I spent too long trying to find time to watch all the videos, and finally gave up and listed a few below that I haven’t seen.

AWS 64

AWS Energy Architecture Programming 64

O'Reilly

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

Entirely new paradigms rise quickly: cloud computing, data engineering, machine learning engineering, mobile development, and large language models. It’s less risky to hire adjunct professors with industry experience to fill teaching roles that have a vocational focus: mobile development, data engineering, and cloud computing.

Education 92

Education Azure AWS Java 92

The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 17, 2024

By J Han , PallaviPhadnis Context At Netflix, we use Amazon Web Services (AWS) for our cloud infrastructure needs, such as compute, storage, and networking to build and run the streaming platform that we love. The standardized data model and processing promotes scalability and consistency.

Efficiency 202

Efficiency Cloud Analytics Infrastructure 202