The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 21, 2020

By Anupom Syam Background At Netflix, our current data warehouse contains hundreds of Petabytes of data stored in AWS S3 , and each day we ingest and create additional Petabytes. On the other hand, these optimizations themselves need to be sufficiently inexpensive to justify their own processing cost over the gains they bring.

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Storage Latency Efficiency Data Engineering 203

The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 25, 2019

Now, imagine yourself in the role of a software engineer responsible for a micro-service which publishes data consumed by few critical customer facing services (e.g. You are about to make structural changes to the data and want to know who and what downstream to your service will be impacted.

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Infrastructure Big Data Transportation Architecture 219

O'Reilly

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

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. there’s a Python library for virtually anything a developer or data scientist might need to do. In aggregate, data engineering usage declined 8% in 2019.

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Software Architecture DevOps Data Engineering Architecture 132

The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 18, 2022

As the usage increased, we had to vertically scale the system to keep up and were approaching AWS instance type limits. increasing at > 100% a year, the need for a scalable data workflow orchestrator has become paramount for Netflix’s business needs. Meson was based on a single leader architecture with high availability.

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Java Scalability Traffic Architecture 202

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

by Shefali Vyas Dalal AWS re:Invent is a couple weeks away and our engineers & leaders are thrilled to be in attendance yet again this year! Technology advancements in content creation and consumption have also increased its data footprint. We’ve compiled our speaking events below so you know what we’ve been working on.

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AWS Entertainment Open Source Benchmarking 37

All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

Previously, I wrote about Amazon QuickSight , a new service targeted at business users that aims to simplify the process of deriving insights from a wide variety of data sources quickly, easily, and at a low cost. Put simply, data is not always readily available and accessible to organizational end users.

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Analytics Availability Media Social Media 152

Abhishek Tiwari

JULY 7, 2023

In the era of big data and complex data processing, data pipelines have emerged as a popular solution for managing and manipulating data. They provide a systematic approach to extract, transform, and load (ETL) data from various sources, enabling organizations to derive valuable insights.

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Logistics Transportation Scalability Data Engineering 52

All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 7, 2015

However, the data infrastructure to collect, store and process data is geared toward developers (e.g., In AWS’ quest to enable the best data storage options for engineers, we have built several innovative database solutions like Amazon RDS, Amazon RDS for Aurora, Amazon DynamoDB, and Amazon Redshift.

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Cloud Big Data AWS Analytics 137

All Things Distributed

AUGUST 24, 2012

The AWS team launched this week Amazon Glacier , a cold storage archive service at the very low price point of $0.01 Which makes this week a good moment to read up on some of the historical work around the costs of data engineering. I am in the midst of my South America tour in the beautiful but very cold Santiago, Chile.

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Storage Hardware AWS Data Engineering 108

The Symphonia

JUNE 19, 2018

I was fortunate to be both presenting a 2-day workshop (on AWS Serverless Architectures and Continuous Deployment) as well as hosting a full-day Serverless track of talks. This has proved especially true in the last couple of months, as we helped a company update it’s entire AWS infrastructure in a number of critical ways. Great stuff!

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