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Data Engineers of Netflix?—?Interview with Kevin Wylie

The Netflix TechBlog

His favorite TV shows: Ozark, Breaking Bad, Black Mirror, Barry, and Chernobyl Since I joined Netflix back in 2011, my favorite project has been designing and building the first version of our entertainment knowledge graph. I was later hired into my first purely data gig where I was able to deepen my knowledge of big data.

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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

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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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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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. AWS GovCloud (US) will be used by several of these agencies to help them with their Bigger-than-Big-Data needs. All Things Distributed.

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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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