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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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DROAM - Dreaming about Cheap Data Roaming - All Things.

All Things Distributed

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. For an internet road warrior they are a complete nightmare. Starting on January 1, 2011, the service, which is called DROAM, is open to use for everyone.

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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. AWS Import/Export transfers data off of storage devices using Amazons high-speed internal network and bypassing the Internet. With this new functionality AWS Import/Export now supports importing data directly into Amazon EBS snapshots. Comments (). Expanding the Cloud â??

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Hacking with AWS at The Next Web Hackaton - All Things Distributed

All Things Distributed

By Werner Vogels on 24 March 2011 10:31 AM. Over the past years The Next Web Conference has become a premier conference on internet life and its technologies. Up to 200 developers and designers will get together to hack up interesting applications using the Internets APIs and SDKs. Driving down the cost of Big-Data analytics.

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New Route 53 and ELB features: IPv6, Zone Apex, WRR and more.

All Things Distributed

By Werner Vogels on 24 May 2011 05:26 AM. Elastic Load Balancing now provides support for EC2 Security Groups such that customers that hosts their Internet accessible application instances behind ELB can build security rules that for example restrict traffic to only the ELB instances that front them. All Things Distributed.

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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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