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Data Engineers of Netflix?—?Interview with Kevin Wylie

The Netflix TechBlog

Interview with Kevin Wylie This post is part of our “Data Engineers of Netflix” series, where our very own data engineers talk about their journeys to Data Engineering @ Netflix. Kevin Wylie is a Data Engineer on the Content Data Science and Engineering team. 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. Inserts are efficient for bulk inserts only.

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Job Openings in AWS - Senior Leader in Database Services - All.

All Things Distributed

Job Openings in AWS - Senior Leader in Database Services. By Werner Vogels on 19 August 2011 12:40 PM. This week it is an opening for senior leaders with AWS Database Services. AWS Database Services is responsible for setting the database strategy and delivering distributed structured storage services to our AWS customers.

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The AWS GovCloud (US) Region - All Things Distributed

All Things Distributed

By Werner Vogels on 16 August 2011 06:40 AM. Government and Big Data. One particular early use case for AWS GovCloud (US) will be massive data processing and analytics. The scalability, flexibility and the elasticity of AWS makes it an ideal environment for the agencies to run their analytics. Comments ().

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DROAM - Dreaming about Cheap Data Roaming - All Things.

All Things Distributed

DROAM - Dreaming about Cheap Data Roaming. By Werner Vogels on 11 January 2011 10:20 AM. The one thing that I have always struggled with during my travels are the data plans of the cell phone companies. Starting on January 1, 2011, the service, which is called DROAM, is open to use for everyone. All Things Distributed.

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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. a Fast and Scalable NoSQL Database Service Designed for Internet Scale Applications. Job Openings in AWS - Senior Leader in Database Services. Driving down the cost of Big-Data analytics. Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems.

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