The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

Membership Engineering at Netflix is responsible for the plan and pricing configurations for every market worldwide. 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.

Mobile 218

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Dynatrace

APRIL 20, 2023

Causal AI—which brings AI-enabled actionable insights to IT operations—and a data lakehouse, such as Dynatrace Grail , can help break down silos among ITOps, DevSecOps, site reliability engineering, and business analytics teams. “It’s quite a big scale,” said an engineer at the financial services group.

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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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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

OCTOBER 18, 2022

As Big data and ML became more prevalent and impactful, the scalability, reliability, and usability of the orchestrating ecosystem have increasingly become more important for our data scientists and the company. Another dimension of scalability to consider is the size of the workflow.

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Dynatrace

MARCH 24, 2023

Docker Swarm First introduced in 2014 by Docker, Docker Swarm is an orchestration engine that popularized the use of containers with developers. The Docker file format is used broadly for orchestration engines, and Docker Engine ships with Docker Swarm and Kubernetes frameworks included.

Infrastructure 246

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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

JANUARY 16, 2023

Most Kubernetes clusters in the cloud (73%) are built on top of managed distributions from the hyperscalers like AWS Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS), Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), or Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE). Through effortless provisioning, a larger number of small hosts provide a cost-effective and scalable platform.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Dynatrace built and optimized it for Davis® AI, the game-changing Dynatrace artificial intelligence engine that processes billions of dependencies in the blink of an eye. Grail addresses today’s challenges of big data and cloud everywhere: Grail is highly scalable, cost-effective, and super-fast.

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The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 7, 2021

Berkeley Packet Filter (BPF) is an in-kernel execution engine that processes a virtual instruction set, and has been extended as eBPF for providing a safe way to extend kernel functionality. The data is also used by security and other partner teams for insight and incident analysis. What is BPF?

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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. This user-oriented nature had vast implications: The end user is often interested in aggregated reporting information, not in separate data items, and SQL pays a lot of attention to this aspect. 1) Denormalization.

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

It also improves the engineering productivity by simplifying the existing pipelines and unlocking the new patterns. Whether in analyzing A/B tests, optimizing studio production, training algorithms, investing in content acquisition, detecting security breaches, or optimizing payments, well structured and accurate data is foundational.

Processing 219

Processing Big Data Efficiency Engineering 219

Alex Podelko

DECEMBER 19, 2019

– Performance engineering as it done at Alibaba – which emerging as a major cloud provider. – Clearly a hot topic – and the most interesting point here would be how it is changing performance engineering. Meeting of the Minds: Performance Engineering. a Panel Discussion. You can’t always get what you want. .

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High Scalability

APRIL 14, 2020

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Education 105

Education Software Engineering Scalability Engineering 105

High Scalability

MAY 12, 2020

Scrapinghub is hiring a Senior Software Engineer (Big Data/AI). this is going to be a challenging journey for any backend engineer! this is going to be a challenging journey for any backend engineer! Learn to balance architecture trade-offs and design scalable enterprise-level software. Please apply here.

Education 102

Education Software Engineering Scalability Engineering 102

High Scalability

APRIL 28, 2020

Scrapinghub is hiring a Senior Software Engineer (Big Data/AI). this is going to be a challenging journey for any backend engineer! this is going to be a challenging journey for any backend engineer! Learn to balance architecture trade-offs and design scalable enterprise-level software. Please apply here.

Education 102

Education Software Engineering Scalability Engineering 102

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. Choosing the right database often comes down to MongoDB vs MySQL.

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Scalability Database Storage IoT 147

All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 7, 2015

However, the data infrastructure to collect, store and process data is geared toward developers (e.g., In AWS’ quest to enable the best data storage options for engineers, we have built several innovative database solutions like Amazon RDS, Amazon RDS for Aurora, Amazon DynamoDB, and Amazon Redshift. Big data challenges.

Cloud 112

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High Scalability

MAY 26, 2020

Scrapinghub is hiring a Senior Software Engineer (Big Data/AI). this is going to be a challenging journey for any backend engineer! this is going to be a challenging journey for any backend engineer! Created by former senior-level AWS engineers of 15 years. Try out their platform. Please apply here.

Education 100

Education AWS Software Engineering Scalability 100

All Things Distributed

APRIL 27, 2011

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. And while many of our systems are based on the latest in computer science research, this often hasnt been sufficient: our architects and engineers have had to advance research in directions that no academic had yet taken. All Things Distributed. Comments ().

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Technology Technology AWS Storage 127

The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 21, 2020

Some of the optimizations are prerequisites for a high-performance data warehouse. Sometimes Data Engineers write downstream ETLs on ingested data to optimize the data/metadata layouts to make other ETL processes cheaper and faster. Other Components Iceberg We use Apache Iceberg as the table format.

Storage 212

Storage Latency Efficiency Data Engineering 212

High Scalability

MARCH 24, 2020

Scrapinghub is hiring a Senior Software Engineer (Big Data/AI). this is going to be a challenging journey for any backend engineer! this is going to be a challenging journey for any backend engineer! Triplebyte is unique because they're a team of engineers running their own centralized technical assessment.

Education 105

Education Software Engineering Engineering Big Data 105

High Scalability

MARCH 30, 2020

Scrapinghub is hiring a Senior Software Engineer (Big Data/AI). this is going to be a challenging journey for any backend engineer! this is going to be a challenging journey for any backend engineer! Triplebyte is unique because they're a team of engineers running their own centralized technical assessment.

Education 105

Education Software Engineering Engineering Big Data 105

Scalegrid

MARCH 14, 2024

This approach allows companies to combine the security and control of private clouds with public clouds’ scalability and innovation potential. Enterprise cloud architects and engineers require significant knowledge to ensure that private and public clouds work together compatibly. A hybrid cloud strategy could be your answer.

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Strategy Cloud Infrastructure Artificial Intelligence 130

All Things Distributed

JUNE 20, 2017

After the launch of the AWS APAC (Hong Kong) Region, there will be 19 Availability Zones in Asia Pacific for customers to build flexible, scalable, secure, and highly available applications. 9GAG has a small team of nine people, including three engineers to support the business, and uses AWS to service their global visitors.

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All Things Distributed

MARCH 28, 2011

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. The scalability, reliability and durability requirements for Cloud Drive are very high which is why they decided to make use of the Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) as the core component of their service. Driving down the cost of Big-Data analytics.

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All Things Distributed

APRIL 4, 2017

After the launch of the AWS EU (Stockholm) Region, there will be 13 Availability Zones in Europe for customers to build flexible, scalable, secure, and highly available applications. It will also give customers another region where they can store their data with the knowledge that it will not leave the EU unless they move it.

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All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 8, 2016

Given this, enterprises, public sector bodies, startups, and small businesses are looking to adopt agile, scalable, and secure public cloud solutions. Access to secure, scalable, low-cost AWS infrastructure in Canada allows customers to innovate and provide tools to meet privacy, sovereignty, and compliance requirements. Scalability.

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AWS Cloud Lambda Innovation 128

All Things Distributed

AUGUST 17, 2011

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. If you have a largely static site you can rely on the enormous power of S3 to make serving your content highly scalable and storing it extremely durable. a Fast and Scalable NoSQL Database Service Designed for Internet Scale Applications. Comments ().

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All Things Distributed

AUGUST 20, 2012

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. With Amazon Glacier any organization now has access to the same data archiving capabilities as the worldâ??s If you are an engineer or engineering manager with an interest in massive scale distributed storage systems weâ??d All Things Distributed.

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Storage Cloud AWS Media 113

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. Data transfer technology.

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All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 5, 2010

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. There is more than one Werner Vogels in this world and although I never get emails, snail mail or phones calls for any of my peers, I am sure they are somewhat frustrated if they type in our name in a search engine :-). All Things Distributed. Comments ().

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All Things Distributed

JANUARY 19, 2011

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. and Engine Yard , Springsource users have CloudFoundry. Elastic Beanstalk makes it easy for developers to deploy and manage scalable and fault-tolerant applications on the AWS cloud. Driving down the cost of Big-Data analytics. Comments ().

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ScaleOut Software

JULY 19, 2021

And it can maintain contextual information about every data source (like the medical history of a device wearer or the maintenance history of a refrigeration system) and keep it immediately at hand to enhance the analysis.

IoT 78

IoT Big Data Analytics Architecture 78

All Things Distributed

SEPTEMBER 6, 2013

Shell leverages AWS for big data analytics to help achieve these goals. Shell''s scientists, especially the geophysicists and drilling engineers, frequently use cloud computing to run models. Essent – supplies customers in the Benelux region with gas, electricity, heat and energy services.

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Cloud Energy AWS Healthcare 100

All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. A third generation of APIs, however, left the graphics specifics interfaces behind and instead focused on exposing the pipeline as a generic highly parallel engine supporting task and data parallelism. Driving down the cost of Big-Data analytics.

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All Things Distributed

JULY 13, 2010

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Cluster Computer Instances are similar to other Amazon EC2 instances but have been specifically engineered to provide high performance compute and networking. a Fast and Scalable NoSQL Database Service Designed for Internet Scale Applications. Comments ().

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