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Data Engineers of Netflix?—?Interview with Samuel Setegne

The Netflix TechBlog

Data Engineers of Netflix?—?Interview Interview with Samuel Setegne Samuel Setegne This post is part of our “Data Engineers of Netflix” interview series, where our very own data engineers talk about their journeys to Data Engineering @ Netflix. What drew you to Netflix?

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What is IT automation?

Dynatrace

IT automation is the practice of using coded instructions to carry out IT tasks without human intervention. At its most basic, automating IT processes works by executing scripts or procedures either on a schedule or in response to particular events, such as checking a file into a code repository. Testing automation can be painstaking.

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A Day in the Life of an Experimentation and Causal Inference Scientist @ Netflix

The Netflix TechBlog

Together with data analytics and data engineering, we comprise the larger, centralized Data Science and Engineering group. Learning through data is in Netflix’s DNA. We use A/B tests to introduce new product features, such as our daily Top 10 row that help our members discover their next favorite show.

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How Our Paths Brought Us to Data and Netflix

The Netflix TechBlog

I bring my breadth of big data tools and technologies while Julie has been building statistical models for the past decade. A lot of my learning and training was self-guided until 2016, when a manager at my last company took a chance on me and helped me make the rare transfer from a role in HR to Data Science.

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Incremental Processing using Netflix Maestro and Apache Iceberg

The Netflix TechBlog

IPS enables users to continue to use the data processing patterns with minimal changes. Introduction Netflix relies on data to power its business in all phases. Backfill: Backfilling datasets is a common operation in big data processing. Users configure the workflow to read the data in a window (e.g.

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Reimagining Experimentation Analysis at Netflix

The Netflix TechBlog

Toby Mao , Sri Sri Perangur , Colin McFarland Another day, another custom script to analyze an A/B test. You can look at ABlaze (our centralized A/B testing platform) and take a quick look at how it’s performing. At any point a Netflix user is in many different A/B tests orchestrated through ABlaze. Not at Netflix.

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