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Data Engineers of Netflix?—?Interview with Kevin Wylie

The Netflix TechBlog

In this post, Kevin talks about his extensive experience in content analytics at Netflix since joining more than 10 years ago. What keeps me engaged and enjoying data engineering is giving super-suits and adrenaline shots to analytics engineers and data scientists. What drew you to Netflix?

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Driving down the cost of Big-Data analytics - All Things Distributed

All Things Distributed

Driving down the cost of Big-Data analytics. By Werner Vogels on 18 August 2011 04:00 PM. The Amazon Elastic MapReduce (EMR) team announced today the ability to seamlessly use Amazon EC2 Spot Instances with their service, significantly driving down the cost of data analytics in the cloud. Comments ().

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Should You Use ClickHouse as a Main Operational Database?

Percona

What if we use ClickHouse (which is a columnar analytical database) as our main datastore? Well, typically, an analytical database is not a replacement for a transactional or key/value datastore. This information can be a mix of analytical (OLAP) queries (i.e. Analytical databases are optimized for a low number of slow queries.

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DROAM - Dreaming about Cheap Data Roaming - All Things.

All Things Distributed

By Werner Vogels on 11 January 2011 10:20 AM. Starting on January 1, 2011, the service, which is called DROAM, is open to use for everyone. Driving down the cost of Big-Data analytics. All Things Distributed. Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. DROAM - Dreaming about Cheap Data Roaming.

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Expanding the Cloud - AWS Import/Export Support for Amazon EBS.

All Things Distributed

By Werner Vogels on 07 July 2011 01:40 PM. Driving down the cost of Big-Data analytics. All Things Distributed. Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Expanding the Cloud - AWS Import/Export Support for Amazon EBS. Comments (). Introducing the AWS South America (Sao Paulo) Region.

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Introducing the AWS South America - All Things Distributed

All Things Distributed

By Werner Vogels on 14 December 2011 07:00 PM. Driving down the cost of Big-Data analytics. Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Expanding the Cloud â?? Introducing the AWS South America (Sao Paulo) Region. Comments (). Introducing the AWS South America (Sao Paulo) Region.

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Expanding the Cloud - Introducing Amazon ElastiCache - All Things.

All Things Distributed

By Werner Vogels on 22 August 2011 07:40 PM. Driving down the cost of Big-Data analytics. All Things Distributed. Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Expanding the Cloud - Introducing Amazon ElastiCache. Comments (). Introducing the AWS South America (Sao Paulo) Region.

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