The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 20, 2024

A summary of sessions at the first Data Engineering Open Forum at Netflix on April 18th, 2024 The Data Engineering Open Forum at Netflix on April 18th, 2024. At Netflix, we aspire to entertain the world, and our data engineering teams play a crucial role in this mission by enabling data-driven decision-making at scale.

Data Engineering 203

Data Engineering Engineering Entertainment Software Engineering 203

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 242

Analytics Engineering Data Engineering Tuning 242

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 222

Infrastructure Big Data Transportation Architecture 222

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 207

Java Scalability Traffic Architecture 207

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.

Storage 208

Storage Latency Efficiency Data Engineering 208

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 214

Processing Big Data Efficiency Engineering 214

InfoQ

MAY 8, 2024

Jules Damji discusses which infrastructure should be used for distributed fine-tuning and training, how to scale ML workloads, how to accommodate large models, and how can CPUs and GPUs be utilized? By Jules Damji

Tuning 91

Tuning Infrastructure Artificial Intelligence Data Engineering 91