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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DZone

DECEMBER 27, 2023

Welcome to the first post in our exciting series on mastering offline data pipeline's best practices, focusing on the potent combination of Apache Airflow and data processing engines like Hive and Spark. Working together, they form the backbone of many modern data engineering solutions.

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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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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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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.

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The Netflix TechBlog

JULY 21, 2022

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. With large data, comes the opportunity to leverage the data for predictive and classification based analysis.

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

by Jun He , Yingyi Zhang , and Pawan Dixit Incremental processing is an approach to process new or changed data in workflows. The key advantage is that it only incrementally processes data that are newly added or updated to a dataset, instead of re-processing the complete dataset.

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DZone

DECEMBER 21, 2020

Setting up a data warehouse is the first step towards fully utilizing big data analysis. Still, it is one of many that need to be taken before you can generate value from the data you gather. An important step in that chain of the process is data modeling and transformation.

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Dynatrace

JULY 6, 2022

Scripts and procedures usually focus on a particular task, such as deploying a new microservice to a Kubernetes cluster, implementing data retention policies on archived files in the cloud, or running a vulnerability scanner over code before it’s deployed. Big data automation tools. Batch process automation.

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The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 2, 2021

Stephanie Lane , Wenjing Zheng , Mihir Tendulkar Source credit: Netflix Within the rapid expansion of data-related roles in the last decade, the title Data Scientist has emerged as an umbrella term for myriad skills and areas of business focus. Learning through data is in Netflix’s DNA. It can be hard to know from the outside.

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The Netflix TechBlog

MAY 26, 2020

By collecting, accessing and analyzing network data from a variety of sources like VPC Flow Logs, ELB Access Logs, Custom Exporter Agents, etc, we can provide Network Insight to users through multiple data visualization techniques like Lumen , Atlas , etc. At Netflix we publish the Flow Log data to Amazon S3.

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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

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All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 7, 2015

We live in a world where massive volumes of data are generated from websites, connected devices and mobile apps. 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.

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Uber Engineering

AUGUST 14, 2019

Maintaining Uber’s large-scale data warehouse comes with an operational cost in terms of ETL functions and storage. Once identified, … The post Less is More: Engineering Data Warehouse Efficiency with Minimalist Design appeared first on Uber Engineering Blog.

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Abhishek Tiwari

DECEMBER 27, 2017

ETL refers to extract, transform, load and it is generally used for data warehousing and data integration. There are several emerging data trends that will define the future of ETL in 2018. A common theme across all these trends is to remove the complexity by simplifying data management as a whole.

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High Scalability

MARCH 24, 2020

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High Scalability

APRIL 14, 2020

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High Scalability

MAY 12, 2020

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High Scalability

APRIL 28, 2020

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High Scalability

MARCH 30, 2020

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High Scalability

MAY 26, 2020

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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.

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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. Then we perform frequent batch ETL from application databases to a data warehouse. Classic ETL. then ELT is a more preferred option.

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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

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The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

After recreating the dataset, you can plot the raw numbers and perform custom analyses to understand the distribution of the data across test cells. However, the default reports only provide a summary view of the data with some powerful but limited filtering options.

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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. Enter Amazon QuickSight.

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