The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 6, 2022

By Astha Singhal , Lakshmi Sudheer , Julia Knecht The Application Security teams at Netflix are responsible for securing the software footprint that we create to run the Netflix product, the Netflix studio, and the business. Our customers are product and engineering teams at Netflix that build these software services and platforms.

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The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 5, 2019

Netflix’s engineering culture is predicated on Freedom & Responsibility, the idea that everyone (and every team) at Netflix is entrusted with a core responsibility and they are free to operate with freedom to satisfy their mission. All these micro-services are currently operated in AWS cloud infrastructure.

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The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 25, 2019

Now, imagine yourself in the role of a software engineer responsible for a micro-service which publishes data consumed by few critical customer facing services (e.g. You are about to make structural changes to the data and want to know who and what downstream to your service will be impacted.

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

by Shefali Vyas Dalal AWS re:Invent is a couple weeks away and our engineers & leaders are thrilled to be in attendance yet again this year! Technology advancements in content creation and consumption have also increased its data footprint. Please stop by our “Living Room” for an opportunity to connect or reconnect with Netflixers.

AWS 38

AWS Entertainment Open Source Benchmarking 38

O'Reilly

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

This year’s growth in Python usage was buoyed by its increasing popularity among data scientists and machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI) engineers. Software architecture, infrastructure, and operations are each changing rapidly. Python libraries are no less useful for manipulating or engineering data, too.).

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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

Dynatrace

JULY 6, 2022

As organizations continue to adopt multicloud strategies, the complexity of these environments grows, increasing the need to automate cloud engineering operations to ensure organizations can enforce their policies and architecture principles. This requires significant data engineering efforts, as well as work to build machine-learning models.

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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. Users configure the workflow to read the data in a window (e.g. The window is set based on users’ domain knowledge so that users have a high confidence that the late arriving data will be included or will not matter (i.e.

Processing 219

Processing Big Data Efficiency Engineering 219

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).

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Big Data Cache Engineering Data Engineering 188

The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 7, 2024

Without these integrations, projects would be stuck at the prototyping stage, or they would have to be maintained as outliers outside the systems maintained by our engineering teams, incurring unsustainable operational overhead. Importantly, all the use cases were engineered by practitioners themselves.

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The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Usability Netflix is a data-driven company, where key decisions are driven by data insights, from the pixel color used on the landing page to the renewal of a TV-series. Data scientists, engineers, non-engineers, and even content producers all run their data pipelines to get the necessary insights.

Java 211

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VoltDB

DECEMBER 11, 2024

Interoperability Between Edge Devices Edge ecosystems often involve a heterogeneous mix of devices from different manufacturers, each with proprietary software and communication protocols. Data format mismatches across systems. Key issues include: A shortage of edge-native data engineers and architects.

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High Scalability

JANUARY 22, 2020

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Education 22

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High Scalability

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

Sisu Data is looking for machine learning engineers who are eager to deliver their features end-to-end, from Jupyter notebook to production, and provide actionable insights to businesses based on their first-party, streaming, and structured relational data. Apply here. Try the 30-day free trial!

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High Scalability

OCTOBER 29, 2019

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Abhishek Tiwari

JULY 20, 2019

When it comes to organising engineering teams, a popular view has been to organise your teams based on either Spotify's agile model (i.e. One thing stand-out to me is being intentional and practical about your engineering organisation design. squads, chapters, tribes, and guilds) or simply follow Amazon's two-pizza team model.

Engineering 61

Engineering Retail Airlines Healthcare 61

High Scalability

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

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Education 21

Education Java Software Engineering Engineering 21

High Scalability

MARCH 3, 2020

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High Scalability

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

Sisu Data is looking for machine learning engineers who are eager to deliver their features end-to-end, from Jupyter notebook to production, and provide actionable insights to businesses based on their first-party, streaming, and structured relational data. Apply here. Try the 30-day free trial!

Education 113

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High Scalability

APRIL 14, 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 105

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High Scalability

JANUARY 7, 2020

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Education 21

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High Scalability

DECEMBER 12, 2019

Sisu Data is looking for machine learning engineers who are eager to deliver their features end-to-end, from Jupyter notebook to production, and provide actionable insights to businesses based on their first-party, streaming, and structured relational data. Apply here. Try the 30-day free trial!

Education 21

Education Java Software Engineering Engineering 21

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

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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

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

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High Scalability

FEBRUARY 9, 2020

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Education 108

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MARCH 17, 2020

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O'Reilly

MARCH 2, 2020

Agile is not, and never was, about getting developers to write software faster. If you were involved with professional programming in the 80s and 90s, you may remember how radical it was (and, in many shops, still is) to put software developers in touch with users and customers. This is important. Neckbeards? Geeks and nerds?

Artificial Intelligence 27

Artificial Intelligence Software Architecture Programming C++ 27

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.

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O'Reilly

JULY 15, 2020

Success with microservices means owning the software lifecycle. Most (74%) respondents say their teams own the build-test-deploy-maintain phases of the software lifecycle. Software engineers comprise the survey audience’s single largest cluster, over one quarter (27%) of respondents (Figure 1). Success with containers.

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Database Architecture Education Systems 145

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

by Shefali Vyas Dalal AWS re:Invent is a couple weeks away and our engineers & leaders are thrilled to be in attendance yet again this year! Technology advancements in content creation and consumption have also increased its data footprint. Please stop by our “Living Room” for an opportunity to connect or reconnect with Netflixers.

AWS 100

AWS Entertainment Open Source Benchmarking 100

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

by Shefali Vyas Dalal AWS re:Invent is a couple weeks away and our engineers & leaders are thrilled to be in attendance yet again this year! Technology advancements in content creation and consumption have also increased its data footprint. Please stop by our “Living Room” for an opportunity to connect or reconnect with Netflixers.

AWS 100

AWS Entertainment Open Source Benchmarking 100

O'Reilly

FEBRUARY 2, 2020

And conversely, if you need software with that kind of accuracy (for example, a billing application), you shouldn’t be using AI. How do we test software whose behavior is fundamentally probabilistic? We hope you’ll join us at our upcoming events: O’Reilly Software Architecture Conference , New York, February 23-26.

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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.

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Cloud Big Data AWS Analytics 112

Abhishek Tiwari

JULY 12, 2018

Lastly, we will talk about the internal platform and product divide – one key reason why data pipeline initiatives typically fail – and why it is better working backward from the product. If built correctly, data pipelines can offer strategic advantages to the business. A data pipeline is a software which runs on hardware.

Latency 63

Latency Analytics Scalability Engineering 63

The Agile Manager

JULY 31, 2022

There are shadow IT teams of developers or data engineers that spring up in areas like operations or marketing because the captive IT function is slow, if not outright incapable, of responding to internal customer demand. There are also shadow activities of large software delivery programs.

Programming 59

Programming Engineering Data Engineering Innovation 59