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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 stumbled into data engineering rather than making an intentional career move into the field.

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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 (). Contact Info.

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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. These companies can now benefit from the fact that the new Sao Paulo Region is similar to all other AWS Regions, which enables software developed for other Regions to be quickly deployed in South America as well. Driving down the cost of Big-Data analytics. Comments ().

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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. With Import into EBS customers can now develop arbitrary complex layouts as the import service is doing a full binary copy of the disk into Amazon EBS and is not interpreting file system layouts, etc. Driving down the cost of Big-Data analytics. 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. Amazon ElastiCache is compliant with Memcached , which makes it easy for developers who are already familiar with that system to start using the service immediately. For more hands-on information and to get started right away, see Jeff Barrs posting on the AWS Developer Blog.

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

All Things Distributed

By Werner Vogels on 19 August 2011 12:40 PM. For more information: Head of Software Development  . Driving down the cost of Big-Data analytics. All Things Distributed. Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Job Openings in AWS - Senior Leader in Database Services. Comments ().

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