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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. a Fast and Scalable NoSQL Database Service Designed for Internet Scale Applications. Driving down the cost of Big-Data analytics. All Things Distributed. Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Comments (). Countdown to What is Next in AWS.

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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. Driving down the cost of Big-Data analytics. Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Expanding the Cloud â?? Comments (). Countdown to What is Next in AWS.

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The AWS GovCloud (US) Region - All Things Distributed

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By Werner Vogels on 16 August 2011 06:40 AM. The Cloud First strategy is most visible with new Federal IT programs, which are all designed to be â??Cloud Government and Big Data. One particular early use case for AWS GovCloud (US) will be massive data processing and analytics. All Things Distributed. Comments ().

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

All Things Distributed

By Werner Vogels on 19 August 2011 12:40 PM. a Fast and Scalable NoSQL Database Service Designed for Internet Scale Applications. Driving down the cost of Big-Data analytics. All Things Distributed. Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Comments (). Countdown to What is Next in AWS.

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