The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 5, 2019

As a micro-service owner, a Netflix engineer is responsible for its innovation as well as its operation, which includes making sure the service is reliable, secure, efficient and performant. How can we develop templated detection modules (rules- and ML-based) and data streams to increases speed of development?

Infrastructure 185

Infrastructure Cloud Scalability AWS 185

O'Reilly

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

There’s plenty of security risks for business executives, sysadmins, DBAs, developers, etc., The laggard use case was Python-based web development frameworks, which grew by just 3% in usage, year over year. there’s a Python library for virtually anything a developer or data scientist might need to do. to be wary of.

Software Architecture 145

Software Architecture DevOps Data Engineering Architecture 145

The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 25, 2019

We adopted the following mission statement to guide our investments: “Provide a complete and accurate data lineage system enabling decision-makers to win moments of truth.” Nonetheless, Netflix data landscape (see below) is complex and many teams collaborate effectively for sharing the responsibility of our data system management.

Infrastructure 225

Infrastructure Big Data Transportation Architecture 225

The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Let’s define some requirements that we are interested in delivering to the Netflix data engineers or anyone who would like to schedule a workflow with some external assets in it. Conclusions This new method available for Netflix data engineers makes workflow management easier, more transparent and more reliable.

Storage 210

Storage Data Engineering Testing Code 210

Dynatrace

JULY 6, 2022

Developing automation takes time. This requires significant data engineering efforts, as well as work to build machine-learning models. To learn more about how Dynatrace drives more efficient IT operations by automating IT processes, read the ebook, Developing an AIOps strategy for cloud observability. Read eBook now!

Artificial Intelligence 246

Artificial Intelligence Tuning Strategy Big Data 246

The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 21, 2020

At this scale, we can gain a significant amount of performance and cost benefits by optimizing the storage layout (records, objects, partitions) as the data lands into our warehouse. Some of the optimizations are prerequisites for a high-performance data warehouse.

Storage 212

Storage Latency Efficiency Data Engineering 212

The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 2, 2021

At Netflix, our data scientists span many areas of technical specialization, including experimentation, causal inference, machine learning, NLP, modeling, and optimization. Together with data analytics and data engineering, we comprise the larger, centralized Data Science and Engineering group.

Analytics 216

Analytics C++ Innovation Engineering 216

InfoQ

DECEMBER 20, 2023

This event is designed to help senior developers navigate their immediate development challenges, focusing exclusively on the technical aspects that matter right now. InfoQ is delighted to announce a new two-day conference, InfoQ Dev Summit Boston 2024, taking place June 24-25, 2024. By Artenisa Chatziou

Development 86

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The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 6, 2022

including bug bounty, pentesting, PSIRT (product security incident response), security reviews, and developer security education?—?via As the team skews towards more software engineering focused talent, ramping up to support the shared Appsec-focused on-call has been challenging. via a shared on-call rotation.

Software Engineering 176

Software Engineering Scalability Education Engineering 176

The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 7, 2024

Occasionally, these use cases involve terabytes of data, so we have to pay attention to performance. By targeting @titus, Metaflow tasks benefit from these battle-hardened features out of the box, with no in-depth technical knowledge or engineering required from the ML engineers or data scientist end.

Systems 235

Systems Media Cache Open Source 235

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

These challenges are currently addressed in suboptimal and less cost efficient ways by individual local teams to fulfill the needs, such as Lookback: This is a generic and simple approach that data engineers use to solve the data accuracy problem. Users configure the workflow to read the data in a window (e.g.

Processing 219

Processing Big Data Efficiency Engineering 219

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

3:15pm-4:15pm OPN 209 Netflix’s application deployment at scale Andy Glover , Director Delivery Engineering & Paul Roberts, AWS Abstract : Spinnaker is an open-source continuous-delivery platform created by Netflix to improve its developers’ efficiency and reduce the time it takes to get an application into production.

AWS 38

AWS Entertainment Open Source Benchmarking 38

The Netflix TechBlog

JULY 21, 2022

Since memory management is not something one usually associates with classification problems, this blog focuses on formulating the problem as an ML problem and the data engineering that goes along with it. for us at Netflix, this is a combination of the device type, app session ID and software development kit version (SDK version).

Big Data 188

Big Data Cache Engineering Data Engineering 188

The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

History & motivation There were two main motivating use cases that drove Pushy’s initial development and usage. These pain points coincided with the introduction of KeyValue, which was a new offering from the CDE team that is roughly “HashMap as a service” for Netflix developers.

Latency 234

Latency Cache Tuning Efficiency 234

The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 18, 2022

increasing at > 100% a year, the need for a scalable data workflow orchestrator has become paramount for Netflix’s business needs. After perusing the current landscape of workflow orchestrators, we decided to develop a next generation system that can scale horizontally to spread the jobs across the cluster consisting of 100’s of nodes.

Java 211

Java Scalability Traffic Architecture 211

O'Reilly

MARCH 2, 2020

The one thing I don’t see, and the one thing that more than anything else captures the value in Agile, is the ongoing conversation between the customer (however that’s conceived) and the developer. Agile is not, and never was, about getting developers to write software faster. This is important. Neckbeards? Geeks and nerds?

Artificial Intelligence 27

Artificial Intelligence Software Architecture Programming C++ 27

High Scalability

JANUARY 22, 2020

Etleap is analyst-friendly , enterprise-grade ETL-as-a-service , built for Redshift and Snowflake data warehouses and S3/Glue data lakes. Our intuitive software allows data engineers to maintain pipelines without writing code, and lets analysts gain access to data in minutes instead of months.

Education 22

Education Java Software Engineering Engineering 22

High Scalability

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

Etleap is analyst-friendly , enterprise-grade ETL-as-a-service , built for Redshift and Snowflake data warehouses and S3/Glue data lakes. Our intuitive software allows data engineers to maintain pipelines without writing code, and lets analysts gain access to data in minutes instead of months.

Education 22

Education Java Software Engineering Engineering 22

High Scalability

MARCH 3, 2020

Etleap is analyst-friendly , enterprise-grade ETL-as-a-service , built for Redshift and Snowflake data warehouses and S3/Glue data lakes. Our intuitive software allows data engineers to maintain pipelines without writing code, and lets analysts gain access to data in minutes instead of months.

Education 114

Education Engineering Games Java 114

High Scalability

APRIL 14, 2020

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Education 105

Education Software Engineering Scalability Engineering 105

High Scalability

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

Etleap is analyst-friendly , enterprise-grade ETL-as-a-service , built for Redshift and Snowflake data warehouses and S3/Glue data lakes. Our intuitive software allows data engineers to maintain pipelines without writing code, and lets analysts gain access to data in minutes instead of months.

Education 113

Education Engineering Games Java 113

High Scalability

OCTOBER 29, 2019

Etleap is analyst-friendly , enterprise-grade ETL-as-a-service , built for Redshift and Snowflake data warehouses and S3/Glue data lakes. Our intuitive software allows data engineers to maintain pipelines without writing code, and lets analysts gain access to data in minutes instead of months.

Education 22

Education Java Software Engineering Engineering 22

High Scalability

MAY 12, 2020

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Education 102

Education Software Engineering Scalability Engineering 102

High Scalability

APRIL 28, 2020

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Education 102

Education Software Engineering Scalability Engineering 102

High Scalability

MARCH 24, 2020

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Education 105

Education Software Engineering Engineering Big Data 105

High Scalability

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

Etleap is analyst-friendly , enterprise-grade ETL-as-a-service , built for Redshift and Snowflake data warehouses and S3/Glue data lakes. Our intuitive software allows data engineers to maintain pipelines without writing code, and lets analysts gain access to data in minutes instead of months.

Education 21

Education Java Software Engineering Engineering 21

The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

My work is typically developed in R or Python. I focus on improving experimentation methodology to test how well the newest files are working: do they need less bits to stream while providing a higher video quality? Do they cause less errors?

Analytics 230

Analytics Education Innovation Engineering 230

High Scalability

MARCH 17, 2020

Etleap is analyst-friendly , enterprise-grade ETL-as-a-service , built for Redshift and Snowflake data warehouses and S3/Glue data lakes. Our intuitive software allows data engineers to maintain pipelines without writing code, and lets analysts gain access to data in minutes instead of months.

Education 105

Education Engineering Java Servers 105

High Scalability

FEBRUARY 9, 2020

Etleap is analyst-friendly , enterprise-grade ETL-as-a-service , built for Redshift and Snowflake data warehouses and S3/Glue data lakes. Our intuitive software allows data engineers to maintain pipelines without writing code, and lets analysts gain access to data in minutes instead of months.

Education 108

Education Engineering Games Java 108

High Scalability

MARCH 30, 2020

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Education 105

Education Software Engineering Engineering Big Data 105

High Scalability

JANUARY 7, 2020

Etleap is analyst-friendly , enterprise-grade ETL-as-a-service , built for Redshift and Snowflake data warehouses and S3/Glue data lakes. Our intuitive software allows data engineers to maintain pipelines without writing code, and lets analysts gain access to data in minutes instead of months.

Education 21

Education Java Software Engineering Engineering 21

High Scalability

DECEMBER 12, 2019

Etleap is analyst-friendly , enterprise-grade ETL-as-a-service , built for Redshift and Snowflake data warehouses and S3/Glue data lakes. Our intuitive software allows data engineers to maintain pipelines without writing code, and lets analysts gain access to data in minutes instead of months.

Education 21

Education Java Software Engineering Engineering 21

O'Reilly

FEBRUARY 2, 2020

Source code is relatively less important compared to typical applications; the training data is what determines how the model behaves, and the training process is all about tweaking parameters in the application so that it delivers correct results most of the time. You need a repository for models and for the training data.

Software Architecture 109

Software Architecture Monitoring Software Engineering Code 109

High Scalability

MAY 26, 2020

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Education 100

Education AWS Software Engineering Scalability 100

The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 4, 2024

For efficient error handling, Netflix developed an error classification service, called Pensive, which leverages a rule-based classifier for error classification. To address these challenges, we have developed a new feature, called Auto Remediation , which integrates the rule-based classifier with an ML service.

Tuning 217

Tuning Efficiency Big Data Engineering 217

Abhishek Tiwari

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

Containers for local development and probably in UAT. Explore serverless functions to create Skills++: Induct Technical Architects, Developer Experience (DevX) 50-100 Engineers Focus: Finding new ways to add more value quickly for your customers by exploiting data. Test coverage (50-70%).

Technology 82

Technology Technology Architecture Engineering 82

O'Reilly

JULY 15, 2020

Adding architects and engineers, we see that roughly 55% of the respondents are directly involved in software development. Technical roles represented in the “Other” category include IT managers, data engineers, DevOps practitioners, data scientists, systems engineers, and systems administrators.

Database 145

Database Architecture Education Systems 145