Data Engineering Latency Tuning 
The Netflix TechBlog
FEBRUARY 14, 2025
This dual-path approach leverages Kafkas capability for low-latency streaming and Icebergs efficient management of large-scale, immutable datasets, ensuring both real-time responsiveness and comprehensive historical data availability. million impression events globally every second, with each event approximately 1.2KB in size.
The Netflix TechBlog
SEPTEMBER 10, 2024
Dynomite is a Netflix open source wrapper around Redis that provides a few additional features like auto-sharding and cross-region replication, and it provided Pushy with low latency and easy record expiry, both of which are critical for Pushy’s workload. As Pushy’s portfolio grew, we experienced some pain points with Dynomite.
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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. Orient: Gather tuning parameters for a particular table that changed.
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).
The Netflix TechBlog
NOVEMBER 20, 2023
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. Users configure the workflow to read the data in a window (e.g. data arrives too late to be useful).
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. Some nuances while creating this dataset come from the on-field domain knowledge of our engineers.
Abhishek Tiwari
JULY 12, 2018
Unfortunately, building data pipelines remains a daunting, time-consuming, and costly activity. Not everyone is operating at Netflix or Spotify scale data engineering function. Often companies underestimate the necessary effort and cost involved to build and maintain data pipelines.
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