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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Highly Scalable

MARCH 1, 2012

NoSQL databases are often compared by various non-functional criteria, such as scalability, performance, and consistency. At the same time, NoSQL data modeling is not so well studied and lacks the systematic theory found in relational databases. Many techniques that are described below are perfectly applicable to this model.

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Database Ecommerce Efficiency Engineering 279

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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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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Data Engineering Engineering Entertainment Software Engineering 206

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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All Things Distributed

AUGUST 18, 2011

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. 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.

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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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Storage Latency Efficiency Data Engineering 212

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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Big Data Storage Benchmarking Hardware 63

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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Big Data Google Scalability Processing 196

Dynatrace

JANUARY 11, 2023

As cloud and big data complexity scales beyond the ability of traditional monitoring tools to handle, next-generation cloud monitoring and observability are becoming necessities for IT teams. With agent monitoring, third-party software collects data and reports from the component that’s attached to the agent.

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Cloud Monitoring Best Practices Infrastructure 295

The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 7, 2021

At much less than 1% of CPU and memory on the instance, this highly performant sidecar provides flow data at scale for network insight. Flow Collector consumes two data streams, the IP address change events from Sonar via Kafka and eBPF flow log data from the Flow Exporter sidecars.

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Network Transportation AWS Cloud 327

Dynatrace

JANUARY 16, 2023

The study analyzes factual Kubernetes production data from thousands of organizations worldwide that are using the Dynatrace Software Intelligence Platform to keep their Kubernetes clusters secure, healthy, and high performing. Through effortless provisioning, a larger number of small hosts provide a cost-effective and scalable platform.

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Open Source Java Operating System Programming 358

The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 1, 2021

Data Engineers of Netflix?—?Interview Interview with Dhevi Rajendran Dhevi Rajendran 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.

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Data Engineering Engineering Software Engineering Big Data 139

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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Cloud Big Data Virtualization Efficiency 261

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Several pain points have made it difficult for organizations to manage their data efficiently and create actual value. Limited data availability constrains value creation. Modern IT environments — whether multicloud, on-premises, or hybrid-cloud architectures — generate exponentially increasing data volumes.

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Analytics Artificial Intelligence Storage Serverless 264

Highly Scalable

MARCH 10, 2015

Retail is one of the most important business domains for data science and data mining applications because of its prolific data and numerous optimization problems such as optimal prices, discounts, recommendations, and stock levels that can be solved using data analysis methods.

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Retail C++ Analytics Metrics 152

DZone

AUGUST 23, 2023

In the era of big data, efficient data management and query performance are critical for organizations that want to get the best operational performance from their data investments.

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Big Data Analytics Innovation Scalability 130

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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Processing Big Data Efficiency Engineering 219

The Netflix TechBlog

MAY 4, 2023

It can happen on an edge API system servicing customer devices, between the edge and mid-tier services, or from mid-tiers to data stores. The first phase involves validating functional correctness, scalability, and performance concerns and ensuring the new systems’ resilience before the migration.

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Traffic Latency Tuning Systems 347

Dynatrace

MARCH 24, 2023

Generally, container orchestration tools communicate with a user-created YAML or JSON file — formats that enable data exchange between applications and languages — that describes the configuration of the application or service.

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Infrastructure Open Source Operating System Cloud 246

The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

To solve the challenges mentioned above and meet our rapidly evolving business needs, we re-architected the legacy SKU catalog from the ground up and partnered with the Growth Engineering team to build a scalable SKU platform. SKUDB: SKU catalog data was migrated from the metadata configuration files to a relational database.

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Mobile Engineering Infrastructure Scalability 218

Scalegrid

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

A distributed storage system is foundational in today’s data-driven landscape, ensuring data spread over multiple servers is reliable, accessible, and manageable. Understanding distributed storage is imperative as data volumes and the need for robust storage solutions rise.

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Storage Systems Big Data Azure 130

All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 13, 2016

The council has deployed IoT Weather Stations in Schools across the City and is using the sensor information collated in a Data Lake to gain insights on whether the weather or pollution plays a part in learning outcomes. The British Government is also helping to drive innovation and has embraced a cloud-first policy for technology adoption.

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Scalegrid

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

This article will help you understand the core differences in data structure, scalability, and use cases. Whether you need a relational database for complex transactions or a NoSQL database for flexible data storage, weve got you covered.

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Scalability Database Storage IoT 147

Scalegrid

JANUARY 10, 2025

Heading into 2024, SQL databases will remain essential in data management, increasingly using distributed systems to meet growing needs for scalability and reliability. They keep the features that developers like but can handle much more data, similar to NoSQL systems.

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Database Scalability Best Practices Blockchain 130

All Things Distributed

JANUARY 11, 2011

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. DROAM - Dreaming about Cheap Data Roaming. The one thing that I have always struggled with during my travels are the data plans of the cell phone companies. for the device rental and the first day of data, and â?¬3.50 All Things Distributed.

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Scalegrid

JUNE 28, 2024

It is widely utilized across various industries, such as finance, telecommunications, and e-commerce, for managing activities, including transaction processing, data streaming, and instantaneous messaging. Key Takeaways RabbitMQ is an open-source message broker facilitating seamless data exchange across diverse systems.

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Alex Podelko

DECEMBER 19, 2019

Boris has unique expertise in that area – especially in Big Data applications. How to select appropriate IT Infrastructure to support Digital Transformation by Boris Zibitsker, BEZNext. – Optimizing IT infrastructure – with specific use cases. – And probably the hottest question for operations – anomaly detection.

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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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Artificial Intelligence Big Data Data Engineering Latency 110

Scalegrid

MARCH 28, 2024

In this comparison of Redis vs Memcached, we strip away the complexity, focusing on each in-memory data store’s performance, scalability, and unique features. Redis is better suited for complex data models, and Memcached is better suited for high-throughput, string-based caching scenarios.

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Cache Storage Architecture Scalability 130

Scalegrid

MARCH 14, 2024

This approach allows companies to combine the security and control of private clouds with public clouds’ scalability and innovation potential. This combination allows for the fluid movement of data and applications across different environments, facilitating shared workloads seamlessly.

Strategy 130

Strategy Cloud Infrastructure Artificial Intelligence 130

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

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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Cloud Big Data AWS Analytics 112

All Things Distributed

APRIL 27, 2011

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. To our shareowners: Random forests, naïve Bayesian estimators, RESTful services, gossip protocols, eventual consistency, data sharding, anti-entropy, Byzantine quorum, erasure coding, vector clocks. All Things Distributed. Comments ().

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Technology Technology AWS Storage 127

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