The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 3, 2022

by Jasmine Omeke , Obi-Ike Nwoke , Olek Gorajek Intro This post is for all data practitioners, who are interested in learning about bootstrapping, standardization and automation of batch data pipelines at Netflix. You may remember Dataflow from the post we wrote last year titled Data pipeline asset management with Dataflow.

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DZone

AUGUST 14, 2024

When building ETL data pipelines using Azure Data Factory (ADF) to process huge amounts of data from different sources, you may often run into performance and design-related challenges. This article will serve as a guide in building high-performance ETL pipelines that are both efficient and scalable.

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DZone

JANUARY 8, 2024

Financial data engineering in SAS involves the management, processing, and analysis of financial data using the various tools and techniques provided by the SAS software suite. Here are some key aspects of financial data engineering in SAS: 1.

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DZone

AUGUST 20, 2022

Observability is a mindset that lets you use data to answer questions about business processes.

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The Netflix TechBlog

JANUARY 10, 2024

Future blogs will provide deeper dives into each service, sharing insights and lessons learned from this process. The Netflix video processing pipeline went live with the launch of our streaming service in 2007. The Netflix video processing pipeline went live with the launch of our streaming service in 2007.

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DZone

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

Efficient data processing is crucial for businesses and organizations that rely on big data analytics to make informed decisions. One key factor that significantly affects the performance of data processing is the storage format of the data.

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 21, 2023

A business process is a collection of related, usually structured tasks or steps, performed in sequence, that achieve a defined business goal. Tasks may be manual or automatic, and many business processes will include a combination of both. Make better decisions by providing managers with real-time data about the business.

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DZone

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

In the rapidly evolving digital landscape, the role of data has shifted from being merely a byproduct of business to becoming its lifeblood. With businesses constantly in the race to stay ahead, the process of integrating this data becomes crucial.

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The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Engineers from across the company came together to share best practices on everything from Data Processing Patterns to Building Reliable Data Pipelines. The result was a series of talks which we are now sharing with the rest of the Data Engineering community!

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DZone

JUNE 5, 2024

Batch processing is a capability of App Connect that facilitates the extraction and processing of large amounts of data. Sometimes referred to as data copy , batch processing allows you to author and run flows that retrieve batches of records from a source, manipulate the records, and then load them into a target system.

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

By Abhinaya Shetty , Bharath Mummadisetty At Netflix, our Membership and Finance Data Engineering team harnesses diverse data related to plans, pricing, membership life cycle, and revenue to fuel analytics, power various dashboards, and make data-informed decisions. We expect complete and accurate data at the end of each run.

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DZone

JUNE 3, 2024

In an era where data is the new oil, effectively utilizing data is crucial for the growth of every organization. It is not enough to store these data durably, but also to effectively query and analyze them. Without a querying capability, the data stored in S3 would not be of any benefit.

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DZone

MARCH 29, 2023

Data migration is the process of moving data from one location to another, which is an essential aspect of cloud migration. Data migration involves transferring data from on-premise storage to the cloud. With the rapid adoption of cloud computing , businesses are moving their IT infrastructure to the cloud.

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The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

Second, developers had to constantly re-learn new data modeling practices and common yet critical data access patterns. To overcome these challenges, we developed a holistic approach that builds upon our Data Gateway Platform. Data Model At its core, the KV abstraction is built around a two-level map architecture.

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DZone

JULY 4, 2024

Based on the scale of your existing data warehouse processes or jobs, it can be an enormous task to modernize. A modernized database will help you focus on building innovative solutions rather than investing your time and effort in managing these legacy systems.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 22, 2024

To enable participating organizations to meet the EU requirements for transferring personal data to the U.S., the Data Privacy Framework (DPF) is designed to serve as an adequate data transfer mechanism under the GDPR. Data Privacy Framework Program (The EU-U.S. Benefits of Data Privacy Framework for Dynatrace customers.

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DZone

OCTOBER 8, 2024

Snowflake is a powerful cloud-based data warehousing platform known for its scalability and flexibility. To fully leverage its capabilities and improve efficient data processing, it's crucial to optimize query performance.

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

Unrealized optimization potential of business processes due to monitoring gaps Imagine a retail company facing gaps in its business process monitoring due to disparate data sources. Due to separated systems that handle different parts of the process, the view of the process is fragmented.

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Dynatrace

MAY 2, 2024

Across the globe, privacy laws grant individuals data subject rights, such as the right to access and delete personal data processed about them. Successful compliance with privacy rights requests involves tracking and verifying requests across the entire data ecosystem, including third-party services.

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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

In a digital-first world, site reliability engineers and IT data analysts face numerous challenges with data quality and reliability in their quest for cloud control. Increasingly, organizations seek to address these problems using AI techniques as part of their exploratory data analytics practices.

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The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 8, 2024

Rajiv Shringi Vinay Chella Kaidan Fullerton Oleksii Tkachuk Joey Lynch Introduction As Netflix continues to expand and diversify into various sectors like Video on Demand and Gaming , the ability to ingest and store vast amounts of temporal data — often reaching petabytes — with millisecond access latency has become increasingly vital.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 3, 2024

Considering the latest State of Observability 2024 report, it’s evident that multicloud environments not only come with an explosion of data beyond humans’ ability to manage it. It’s increasingly difficult to ingest, manage, store, and sort through this amount of data. You can find the list of use cases here.

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DZone

AUGUST 23, 2023

Monitoring Time-Series IoT Device Data Time-series data is crucial for IoT device monitoring and data visualization in industries such as agriculture, renewable energy, and meteorology. In this tutorial, we will guide you through the process of setting up a monitoring system for IoT device data.

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Dynatrace

MAY 23, 2024

The jobs executing such workloads are usually required to operate indefinitely on unbounded streams of continuous data and exhibit heterogeneous modes of failure as they run over long periods. Performance is usually a primary concern when using stream processing frameworks. This significantly increases event latency.

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Dynatrace

MAY 3, 2024

Log data—the most verbose form of observability data, complementing other standardized signals like metrics and traces—is especially critical. As cloud complexity grows, it brings more volume, velocity, and variety of log data. When trying to address this challenge, your cloud architects will likely choose Amazon Data Firehose.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

There’s a goldmine of business data traversing your IT systems, yet most of it remains untapped. To unlock business value, the data must be: Accessible from anywhere. Data has value only when you can access it, no matter where it lies. Agile business decisions rely on fresh data. Easy to access. Contextualized.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 31, 2024

To provide maximum freedom in selecting the service-level indicators that matter most to your business, Dynatrace combines SLOs with the power of Dynatrace Grail™ data lakehouse, the central data platform with heterogeneous and contextually linked data. This is where Grail, the Dynatrace central data platform, excels.

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 4, 2024

While this approach can be effective if the model is trained with a large amount of data, even in the best-case scenarios, it amounts to an informed guess, rather than a certainty. But to be successful, data quality is critical. Teams need to ensure the data is accurate and correctly represents real-world scenarios. Consistency.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 29, 2024

Dynatrace continues to deliver on its commitment to keeping your data secure in the cloud. Enhancing data separation by partitioning each customer’s data on the storage level and encrypting it with a unique encryption key adds an additional layer of protection against unauthorized data access.

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DZone

DECEMBER 13, 2024

Data is being generated from various sources, including electronic devices, machines, and social media, across all industries. However, unless it is processed and stored effectively, it holds little value. A significant evolution is taking place in the way data is organized for further analysis.

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 29, 2024

In today’s data-driven world, businesses across various industry verticals increasingly leverage the Internet of Things (IoT) to drive efficiency and innovation. Both methods allow you to ingest and process raw data and metrics. The ADS-B protocol differs significantly from web technologies.

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Dynatrace

MAY 21, 2024

Observing complex environments involves handling regulatory, compliance, and data governance requirements. This continuously evolving landscape requires careful management and clarity regarding how sensitive data is used. This is particularly important when dealing with large volumes of data.

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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.

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 20, 2024

Driven by that value, Dynatrace brings real-time observability, security, and business data into context and makes sense of it so our customers can get answers, automate, predict, and prevent. Executives are sitting on a goldmine of data, and they don’t know it.

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DZone

JULY 10, 2024

In today's rapidly evolving technological landscape, developers, engineers, and architects face unprecedented challenges in managing, processing, and deriving value from vast amounts of data.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 16, 2024

When we launched the new Dynatrace experience, we introduced major updates to the platform, including Grail ™, our innovative data lakehouse unifying observability, security, and business data, and Dynatrace Query Language ( DQL ) for accessing and exploring unified data.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Grail: Enterprise-ready data lakehouse Grail, the Dynatrace causational data lakehouse, was explicitly designed for observability and security data, with artificial intelligence integrated into its foundation. Tables are a physical data model, essentially the type of observability data that you can store.

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