All Things Distributed

JANUARY 20, 2020

Amazon's worldwide financial operations team has the incredible task of tracking all of that data (think petabytes). At Amazon's scale, a miscalculated metric, like cost per unit, or delayed data can have a huge impact (think millions of dollars). The team is constantly looking for ways to get more accurate data, faster.

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DZone

JUNE 3, 2024

In an era where data is the new oil, effectively utilizing data is crucial for the growth of every organization. It is not enough to store these data durably, but also to effectively query and analyze them. Without a querying capability, the data stored in S3 would not be of any benefit.

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The Netflix TechBlog

JULY 26, 2021

This happens at an unprecedented scale and introduces many interesting challenges; one of the challenges is how to provide visibility of Studio data across multiple phases and systems to facilitate operational excellence and empower decision making. With the latest Data Mesh Platform, data movement in Netflix Studio reaches a new stage.

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DZone

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Built on Azure Blob Storage, Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2 is a suite of features for big data analytics. Azure Data Lake Storage Gen1 and Azure Blob Storage's capabilities are combined in Data Lake Storage Gen2. For instance, Data Lake Storage Gen2 offers scale, file-level security, and file system semantics.

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The Netflix TechBlog

JANUARY 13, 2022

By Vikram Srivastava and Marcelo Mayworm Netflix has one of the most complex data platforms in the cloud on which our data scientists and engineers run batch and streaming workloads. As our subscribers grow worldwide and Netflix enters the world of gaming , the number of batch workflows and real-time data pipelines increases rapidly.

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Dynatrace

MAY 1, 2023

IT operations analytics is the process of unifying, storing, and contextually analyzing operational data to understand the health of applications, infrastructure, and environments and streamline everyday operations. ITOA collects operational data to identify patterns and anomalies for faster incident management and near-real-time insights.

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Uber Engineering

OCTOBER 17, 2018

To accomplish this, Uber relies heavily on making data-driven decisions at every level, from forecasting rider demand during high traffic events to identifying and addressing bottlenecks … The post Uber’s Big Data Platform: 100+ Petabytes with Minute Latency appeared first on Uber Engineering Blog.

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The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 27, 2020

By Tianlong Chen and Ioannis Papapanagiotou Netflix has more than 195 million subscribers that generate petabytes of data everyday. Data scientists and engineers collect this data from our subscribers and videos, and implement data analytics models to discover customer behaviour with the goal of maximizing user joy.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 4, 2022

While data lakes and data warehousing architectures are commonly used modes for storing and analyzing data, a data lakehouse is an efficient third way to store and analyze data that unifies the two architectures while preserving the benefits of both. What is a data lakehouse? How does a data lakehouse work?

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The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 25, 2019

Building and Scaling Data Lineage at Netflix to Improve Data Infrastructure Reliability, and Efficiency By: Di Lin , Girish Lingappa , Jitender Aswani Imagine yourself in the role of a data-inspired decision maker staring at a metric on a dashboard about to make a critical business decision but pausing to ask a question?—?“Can

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

I love data. I have spent virtually my entire career looking at data. Synthetic data, network data, system data, and the list goes on. As much as I love data, data is cold, it lacks emotion. As much as I love data, data is cold, it lacks emotion. Often, 4s is too slow.

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Highly Scalable

MARCH 1, 2012

At the same time, NoSQL data modeling is not so well studied and lacks the systematic theory found in relational databases. In this article I provide a short comparison of NoSQL system families from the data modeling point of view and digest several common modeling techniques.

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Uber Engineering

AUGUST 3, 2018

From driver and rider locations and destinations, to restaurant orders and payment transactions, every interaction on Uber’s transportation platform is driven by data.

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The Netflix TechBlog

JULY 15, 2021

Data Engineers of Netflix?—?Interview Interview with Kevin Wylie This post is part of our “Data Engineers of Netflix” series, where our very own data engineers talk about their journeys to Data Engineering @ Netflix. Kevin Wylie is a Data Engineer on the Content Data Science and Engineering team.

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The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Data Engineers of Netflix?—?Interview Interview with Pallavi Phadnis This post is part of our “ Data Engineers of Netflix ” series, where our very own data engineers talk about their journeys to Data Engineering @ Netflix. Pallavi Phadnis is a Senior Software Engineer on the Product Data Science and Engineering team.

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Dynatrace

MARCH 17, 2025

Until recently, improvements in data center power efficiency compensated almost entirely for the increasing demand for computing resources. The rise of big data, cryptocurrencies, and AI means the IT sector contributes significantly to global greenhouse gas emissions. However, this trend is now reversing.

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 10, 2021

This year’s conference agenda was packed full of choices, including: Keynotes : Topics included accelerating digital transformation, with Dynatrace CIO Mike Maciag, and Spatial Collapse: The Great Acceleration of Turning Data Into an Asset, with Tricia Wang from Sudden Compass. We’ve all heard it: data is one of your biggest assets.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 20, 2023

Modern organizations ingest petabytes of data daily, but legacy approaches to log analysis and management cannot accommodate this volume of data. based financial services group, discussed how the bank uses log monitoring on the Dynatrace platform with an emphasis on observability and security data.

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The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 20, 2024

A summary of sessions at the first Data Engineering Open Forum at Netflix on April 18th, 2024 The Data Engineering Open Forum at Netflix on April 18th, 2024. At Netflix, we aspire to entertain the world, and our data engineering teams play a crucial role in this mission by enabling data-driven decision-making at scale.

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The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

and what the role entails by Julie Beckley & Chris Pham This Q&A provides insights into the diverse set of skills, projects, and culture within Data Science and Engineering (DSE) at Netflix through the eyes of two team members: Chris Pham and Julie Beckley. What was your path to working in data? There’s us to the right!

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Highly Scalable

MAY 1, 2012

Statistical analysis and mining of huge multi-terabyte data sets is a common task nowadays, especially in the areas like web analytics and Internet advertising. Analysis of such large data sets often requires powerful distributed data stores like Hadoop and heavy data processing with techniques like MapReduce.

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All Things Distributed

AUGUST 18, 2011

Driving down the cost of Big-Data analytics. 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. However, this cannot be done without efficient, scalable data analytics.

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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

How do you get more value from petabytes of exponentially exploding, increasingly heterogeneous data? The short answer: The three pillars of observability—logs, metrics, and traces—converging on a data lakehouse. To solve this problem, Dynatrace launched Grail, its causational data lakehouse , in 2022.

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The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 21, 2020

By Anupom Syam Background At Netflix, our current data warehouse contains hundreds of Petabytes of data stored in AWS S3 , and each day we ingest and create additional Petabytes. We built AutoOptimize to efficiently and transparently optimize the data and metadata storage layout while maximizing their cost and performance benefits.

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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. Key challenges. Performance.

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DZone

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Introduction With big data streaming platform and event ingestion service Azure Event Hubs , millions of events can be received and processed in a single second. Any real-time analytics provider or batching/storage adaptor can transform and store data supplied to an event hub.

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Uber Engineering

MARCH 21, 2024

Discover real-time query analytics and governance with DataCentral: Uber’s big data observability powerhouse, tackling millions of queries in petabyte-scale environments.

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The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 18, 2022

by Jun He , Akash Dwivedi , Natallia Dzenisenka , Snehal Chennuru , Praneeth Yenugutala , Pawan Dixit At Netflix, Data and Machine Learning (ML) pipelines are widely used and have become central for the business, representing diverse use cases that go beyond recommendations, predictions and data transformations.

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DZone

DECEMBER 21, 2020

Applications used in the field of Big Data process huge amounts of information, and this often happens in real time. Naturally, such applications must be highly reliable so that no error in the code can interfere with data processing. It is an open-source framework for distributed processing of large amounts of data.

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The Morning Paper

DECEMBER 13, 2020

An overview of end-to-end entity resolution for big data , Christophides et al., It’s an important part of many modern data workflows, and an area I’ve been wrestling with in one of my own projects. ACM Computing Surveys, Dec. 2020, Article No.

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Rigor

MAY 22, 2019

Big data is like the pollution of the information age. The Big Data Struggle and Performance Reporting. Alternatively, a number of organizations have created their own internal home-grown systems for managing and distilling web performance and monitoring data. Insights At Any Level. Automatic Updates.

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The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 4, 2024

Operational automation–including but not limited to, auto diagnosis, auto remediation, auto configuration, auto tuning, auto scaling, auto debugging, and auto testing–is key to the success of modern data platforms. We have also noted a great potential for further improvement by model tuning (see the section of Rollout in Production).

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DZone

JUNE 13, 2023

In short, it is the ability to handle more data, more users, and more demand without sacrificing performance, reliability, or security. The reason is straightforward, today, applications generate enormous amounts of data. It is not uncommon to question why scalability has grabbed the attention of the masses these days.

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DZone

JANUARY 19, 2023

Because with the advent of cloud providers, we are less worried about managing data centers. This leads to an increase in the size of data as well. Big data is generated and transported using various mediums in single requests. Everything is available within seconds on-demand.

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Dynatrace

JUNE 26, 2023

Software analytics offers the ability to gain and share insights from data emitted by software systems and related operational processes to develop higher-quality software faster while operating it efficiently and securely. This involves big data analytics and applying advanced AI and machine learning techniques, such as causal AI.

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High Scalability

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

This is a guest post by Limor Maayan-Wainstein , a senior technical writer with 10 years of experience writing about cybersecurity, big data, cloud computing, web development, and more. High performance computing (HPC) enables you to solve complex problems which cannot be solved by regular computing.

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DZone

MAY 25, 2024

The same applies to InfluxDB for time series data analysis. As NetEase expands its business horizons, the logs and time series data it receives explode, and problems like surging storage costs and declining stability come. These were exactly the choices of NetEase, one of the world's highest-yielding game companies but more than that.

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