The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 25, 2019

Netflix’s diverse data landscape made it challenging to capture all the right data and conforming it to a common data model. Spark is the primary big-data compute engine at Netflix and with pretty much every upgrade in Spark, the spark plan changed as well springing continuous and unexpected surprises for us.

Infrastructure 219

Infrastructure Big Data Transportation Architecture 219

All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

There are many more application areas where we use ML extensively: search, autonomous drones, robotics in fulfillment centers, text processing and speech recognition (such as in Alexa) etc. And this process must be repeated for every object, face, voice, and language feature in an application.

AWS 165

AWS Lambda Artificial Intelligence Mobile 165

Highly Scalable

MARCH 10, 2015

More specialized data mining applications like supply chain optimization and fraud detection are out of scope, as well as the implementation details of the data mining process (such as evaluation of model quality). Outputs of this tier can be used to configure downstream processes.

Retail 152

Retail C++ Analytics Metrics 152