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What Adrian Did Next?—?Part 2?—?Sun Microsystems

Adrian Cockcroft

I was mostly coding in C, tuning FORTRAN, and when I needed to do a lot of data analysis of benchmark results used the S-PLUS statistics language, that is the predecessor to R. We had specializations in hardware, operating systems, databases, graphics, etc. Rich Pettit is one of the best programmers I ever met.

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Building and Scaling Data Lineage at Netflix to Improve Data Infrastructure Reliability, and…

The Netflix TechBlog

The lineage data along with the enriched information is accessed through many interfaces using SQL against the warehouse and Gremlin and a REST Lineage Service against a graph database populated from the lineage data discussed earlier in this paragraph. Challenges We faced a diverse set of challenges spread across many layers in the system.