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.

Java 208

Java Scalability Traffic Architecture 208

The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

They’re still analysts at heart but, similar to data engineers, they have a deep understanding of data warehouse capabilities and are pros at data processing optimization and performance tuning.

Analytics 243

Analytics Engineering Data Engineering Tuning 243

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).

Processing 215

Processing Big Data Efficiency Engineering 215

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 223

Infrastructure Big Data Transportation Architecture 223

High Scalability

APRIL 14, 2020

Learn to balance architecture trade-offs and design scalable enterprise-level software. Check out Educative.io's bestselling new 4-course learning track: Scalability and System Design for Developers. Etleap is analyst-friendly , enterprise-grade ETL-as-a-service , built for Redshift and Snowflake data warehouses and S3/Glue data lakes.

Education 105

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High Scalability

MAY 12, 2020

Learn to balance architecture trade-offs and design scalable enterprise-level software. Check out Educative.io's bestselling new 4-course learning track: Scalability and System Design for Developers. Etleap is analyst-friendly , enterprise-grade ETL-as-a-service , built for Redshift and Snowflake data warehouses and S3/Glue data lakes.

Education 102

Education Software Engineering Scalability Engineering 102

High Scalability

APRIL 28, 2020

Learn to balance architecture trade-offs and design scalable enterprise-level software. Check out Educative.io's bestselling new 4-course learning track: Scalability and System Design for Developers. Etleap is analyst-friendly , enterprise-grade ETL-as-a-service , built for Redshift and Snowflake data warehouses and S3/Glue data lakes.

Education 102

Education Software Engineering Scalability Engineering 102

High Scalability

MAY 26, 2020

Created by former senior-level AWS engineers of 15 years. Learn to balance architecture trade-offs and design scalable enterprise-level software. Check out Educative.io 's bestselling new 4-course learning track: Scalability and System Design for Developers. Learn the Good Parts of AWS. Join more than 300,000 other learners.

Education 100

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High Scalability

JUNE 15, 2020

This is a guest post by Eunice Do , Data Engineer at TripleLift , a technology company leading the next generation of programmatic advertising. The system is the data pipeline at TripleLift. TripleLift is an adtech company, and like most companies in this industry, we deal with high volumes of data on a daily basis.

Processing 206

Processing Data Engineering Engineering Efficiency 206

DZone

DECEMBER 21, 2020

On top of that, there are real challenges to overcome in setting up streamlined data modeling processes, including dealing with relations between data points and simplifying the queries to make the whole set of processes scalable.

Big Data 191

Big Data Google Scalability Processing 191

InfoQ

AUGUST 3, 2023

AWS recently announced the general availability (GA) of Amazon EC2 P5 instances powered by the latest NVIDIA H100 Tensor Core GPUs suitable for users that require high performance and scalability in AI/ML and HPC workloads. The GA is a follow-up to the earlier announcement of the development of the infrastructure. By Steef-Jan Wiggers

AWS 75

AWS Availability Scalability Infrastructure 75

Abhishek Tiwari

JULY 7, 2023

The DAG Model and the Misconception Data pipelines are commonly implemented as Directed Acyclic Graphs (DAGs), where data flows through a series of processing steps, with each step represented as a node and the dependencies between steps represented as edges.

Logistics 52

Logistics Transportation Scalability Data Engineering 52

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 209

Storage Latency Efficiency Data Engineering 209

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

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

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

InfoQ

JULY 14, 2023

Mei-Chin Tsai, Vinod discuss the internal architecture of Azure Cosmos DB and how it achieves high availability, low latency, and scalability. By Mei-Chin Tsai, Vinod Sridharan

Latency 52

Latency Azure Availability Scalability 52

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 24, 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 Software Engineering Engineering Big Data 105

Percona Community

OCTOBER 3, 2018

For Percona Live Europe, I’ll be presenting the tutorial Elasticsearch 101 alongside my colleagues and fellow presenters from ObjectRocket Alex Cercel, DBA, and Mihai Aldoiu, Data Engineer. Here’s a brief overview of our tutorial.

Data Engineering 52

Data Engineering Scalability Engineering 52

High Scalability

MARCH 30, 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 Software Engineering Engineering Big Data 105

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

1pm-2pm NFX 207 Benchmarking stateful services in the cloud Vinay Chella , Data Platform Engineering Manager Abstract : AWS cloud services make it possible to achieve millions of operations per second in a scalable fashion across multiple regions. We explore all the systems necessary to make and stream content from Netflix.

AWS 100

AWS Entertainment Open Source Benchmarking 100

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

1pm-2pm NFX 207 Benchmarking stateful services in the cloud Vinay Chella , Data Platform Engineering Manager Abstract : AWS cloud services make it possible to achieve millions of operations per second in a scalable fashion across multiple regions. We explore all the systems necessary to make and stream content from Netflix.

AWS 100

AWS Entertainment Open Source Benchmarking 100

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.

Latency 63

Latency Analytics Scalability Engineering 63

All Things Distributed

AUGUST 24, 2012

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Which makes this week a good moment to read up on some of the historical work around the costs of data engineering. All Things Distributed. Back-to-Basics Weekend Reading - The 5 Minute Rule. By Werner Vogels on 24 August 2012 04:00 PM. Comments ().

Storage 98

Storage Hardware AWS Data Engineering 98

InfoQ

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

Uber uses Presto, an open-source distributed SQL query engine, to provide analytics across several data sources, including Apache Hive, Apache Pinot, MySQL, and Apache Kafka. To improve its performance, Uber engineers explored the advantages of dealing with quick queries, a.k.a.

Analytics 78

Analytics Open Source Engineering Performance 78

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. Native frameworks.

Big Data 63

Big Data Storage Benchmarking Hardware 63

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

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

InfoQ

AUGUST 20, 2024

James Munro discusses ArcticDB and the practicalities of building a performant time-series datastore and why transactions, particularly the Isolation in ACID is just not worth it. By James Munro

Database 111

Database Performance Data Engineering Design 111

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

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

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

InfoQ

AUGUST 7, 2024

Canva evaluated different data massaging solutions for its Product Analytics Platform, including the combination of AWS SNS and SQS, MKS, and Amazon KDS, and eventually chose the latter, primarily based on its much lower costs. The company compared many aspects of these solutions, like performance, maintenance effort, and cost.

AWS 87

AWS Analytics Performance Data Engineering 87

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

1pm-2pm NFX 207 Benchmarking stateful services in the cloud Vinay Chella , Data Platform Engineering Manager Abstract : AWS cloud services make it possible to achieve millions of operations per second in a scalable fashion across multiple regions. We explore all the systems necessary to make and stream content from Netflix.

AWS 38

AWS Entertainment Open Source Benchmarking 38

O'Reilly

JULY 15, 2020

Technical roles represented in the “Other” category include IT managers, data engineers, DevOps practitioners, data scientists, systems engineers, and systems administrators. Just under 44% cited the benefit of “better overall scalability,” followed (43%) by “more frequent code refreshes.”

Database 138

Database Architecture Education Systems 138