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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. 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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Simplifying IT - Create Your Application with AWS CloudFormation.

All Things Distributed

By Werner Vogels on 24 February 2011 04:00 PM. Next to that they are often doing specialized development for these customers, meaning that for each production environment there may also be development and testing environments running. Driving down the cost of Big-Data analytics. All Things Distributed. Comments ().

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Spot Instances - Increased Control - All Things Distributed

All Things Distributed

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. Driving down the cost of Big-Data analytics. All Things Distributed. Comments ().

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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. 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. Driving down the cost of Big-Data analytics. Comments ().

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Data Mining Problems in Retail

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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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