The Netflix TechBlog

JULY 15, 2021

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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Data Engineering Engineering Entertainment Big Data 189

All Things Distributed

AUGUST 18, 2011

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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All Things Distributed

JANUARY 11, 2011

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. I received one of these devices and tested it for the last three months of 2010 when I was almost continuously on the road.

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Wireless AWS Internet Internet 107

All Things Distributed

JULY 11, 2011

By Werner Vogels on 11 July 2011 07:22 AM. As a part of that process, we also realized that there were a number of latency sensitive or location specific use cases like Hadoop, HPC, and testing that would be ideal for Spot. a Fast and Scalable NoSQL Database Service Designed for Internet Scale Applications. Comments ().

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AWS Storage Cloud Big Data 85

All Things Distributed

MAY 24, 2011

By Werner Vogels on 24 May 2011 05:26 AM. A good starting point is the upcoming World IPv6 Day when many organizations will offer their content and services through IPv6 such that the readiness of the different devices, protocols and applications can be tested. Job Openings in AWS - Senior Leader in Database Services.

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Internet Internet AWS Scalability 114

All Things Distributed

FEBRUARY 25, 2011

By Werner Vogels on 24 February 2011 04:00 PM. When a new customer is onboarded, the ISV has to spin up a collection of AWS resources to run their web-servers, app-servers and databases in a multi-AZ (availability zone) setting to achieve high-availability. Job Openings in AWS - Senior Leader in Database Services. Comments ().

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Highly Scalable

MARCH 10, 2015

user behavior cannot be precisely predicted) or because it’s impossible to extrapolate the existing data to the case of interest (e.g. A/B testing and panel surveys are used in such cases to get additional data points that improve the precision of the model. Berry, 2011. JK98] A Microeconomic View of Data Mining, J.

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