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Data Engineers of Netflix?—?Interview with Kevin Wylie

The Netflix TechBlog

Data Engineers of Netflix?—?Interview Interview with Kevin Wylie This post is part of our “Data Engineers of Netflix” series, where our very own data engineers talk about their journeys to Data Engineering @ Netflix. Kevin, what drew you to data engineering?

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5 key areas for tech leaders to watch in 2020

O'Reilly

It’s the single most popular programming language on O’Reilly, and it accounts for 10% of all usage. 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. In programming, Python is preeminent. Figure 3 (above).

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What is IT automation?

Dynatrace

While automating IT practices can save administrators a lot of time, without AIOps, the system is only as intelligent as the humans who program it. This requires significant data engineering efforts, as well as work to build machine-learning models. Monitoring automation is ongoing.

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A Day in the Life of an Experimentation and Causal Inference Scientist @ Netflix

The Netflix TechBlog

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.

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Netflix at AWS re:Invent 2019

The Netflix TechBlog

4pm-5pm OPN 303-R BPF Performance Analysis Brendan Gregg , Senior Performance Engineer Abstract : Extended BPF (eBPF) is an open-source Linux technology that powers a whole new class of software: mini programs that run on events. We share everything attendees need to implement CloudTrail in their own organizations.

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Scaling Appsec at Netflix (Part 2)

The Netflix TechBlog

This will be our “Appsec Reviews and Assessments” function and we are hiring for passionate, early career Appsec engineers to join this group. We will continue to learn as we go through this next phase of evolution of our program. Our focus has been on improving overall security assurance as opposed to just vulnerability prevention.

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2021 Data/AI Salary Survey

O'Reilly

64% of the respondents took part in training or obtained certifications in the past year, and 31% reported spending over 100 hours in training programs, ranging from formal graduate degrees to reading blog posts. To nobody’s surprise, our survey showed that data science and AI professionals are mostly male. Salaries by Gender.

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