The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Netflix’s unique work culture and petabyte-scale data problems are what drew me to Netflix. During earlier years of my career, I primarily worked as a backend software engineer, designing and building the backend systems that enable big data analytics.

Data Engineering 173

Data Engineering Engineering Big Data Software Engineering 173

The Morning Paper

DECEMBER 13, 2020

An overview of end-to-end entity resolution for big data , Christophides et al., It’s an important part of many modern data workflows, and an area I’ve been wrestling with in one of my own projects. A variety of supervised, semi-supervised, and unsupervised matching techniques have also been developed. 2020, Article No.

Big Data 83

Big Data Open Source Processing Analytics 83

The Morning Paper

SEPTEMBER 8, 2019

Experiences with approximating queries in Microsoft’s production big-data clusters Kandula et al., I’ve been excited about the potential for approximate query processing in analytic clusters for some time, and this paper describes its use at scale in production. The accuracy was considered adequate by the developer.

Big Data 57

Big Data Analytics Latency Azure 57

Dynatrace

MARCH 24, 2023

By embracing public cloud and hybrid cloud computing environments, IT teams can further accelerate development and automate software deployment and management. Container technology enables organizations to efficiently develop cloud-native applications or to modernize legacy applications to take advantage of cloud services.

Infrastructure 182

Infrastructure Open Source Operating System Cloud 182

The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 7, 2021

By Alok Tiagi , Hariharan Ananthakrishnan , Ivan Porto Carrero and Keerti Lakshminarayan Netflix has developed a network observability sidecar called Flow Exporter that uses eBPF tracepoints to capture TCP flows at near real time. The data is also used by security and other partner teams for insight and incident analysis.

Network 325

Network Transportation AWS Cloud 325

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 15, 2022

We’ll discuss how the responsibilities of ITOps teams changed with the rise of cloud technologies and agile development methodologies. ITOps is also responsible for configuring, maintaining, and managing servers to provide consistent, high-availability network performance and overall security, including a disaster readiness plan.

Artificial Intelligence 198

Artificial Intelligence DevOps Hardware Virtualization 198

Scalegrid

MARCH 28, 2024

However, its limited feature set compared to Redis might be a disadvantage for applications that require more advanced data structures and persistence. Introduction Caching serves a dual purpose in web development – speeding up client requests and reducing server load. Data transfer technology.

Cache 130

Cache Storage Scalability Architecture 130

Dynatrace

AUGUST 10, 2021

I had the privilege of setting everyone up for the day alongside my co-host Carrie Mott , Head of Marketing and Business Development for APAC. BPAY is in the midst of its digital transformation journey in which it is discovering the critical importance of developing “contemporary ways of designing, operating, and using” its software.

DevOps 246

DevOps Innovation Big Data Cloud 246

Scalegrid

MARCH 14, 2024

Developing Your Hybrid Cloud Strategy When devising a strategy for a hybrid cloud, numerous critical elements must be considered. Tools for optimizing cloud costs offer comprehensive analytics and metrics, plus automation capabilities that assist enterprises in tracking, evaluating, and refining their spending on their hybrid cloud setup.

Strategy 130

Strategy Cloud Artificial Intelligence Infrastructure 130

Dynatrace

JULY 6, 2020

As adoption rates for Microsoft Azure continue to skyrocket, Dynatrace is developing a deeper integration with the platform to provide even more value to organizations that run their businesses on Azure or use it as a part of their multi-cloud strategy. See the health of your big data resources at a glance. Azure Front Door.

Azure 146

Azure Cloud Big Data Virtualization 146

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 17, 2022

Artificial intelligence for IT operations, or AIOps, combines big data and machine learning to provide actionable insight for IT teams to shape and automate their operational strategy. This makes developing, operating, and securing modern applications and the environments they run on practically impossible without AI.

DevOps 192

DevOps Artificial Intelligence Healthcare Innovation 192

The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 2, 2021

At Netflix, our data scientists span many areas of technical specialization, including experimentation, causal inference, machine learning, NLP, modeling, and optimization. Together with data analytics and data engineering, we comprise the larger, centralized Data Science and Engineering group. & Wenjing Z.]

Analytics 207

Analytics C++ Innovation Engineering 207

All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 13, 2016

Today, I'm happy to announce that the AWS Europe (London) Region, our 16th technology infrastructure region globally, is now generally available for use by customers worldwide. Take GoSquared , a UK startup that runs all its development and production processes on AWS, as an example. Fraud.net is a good example of this.

AWS 166

AWS Cloud Artificial Intelligence IoT 166

All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 7, 2015

In such a data intensive environment, making key business decisions such as running marketing and sales campaigns, logistic planning, financial analysis and ad targeting require deriving insights from these data. However, the data infrastructure to collect, store and process data is geared toward developers (e.g.,

Cloud 137

Cloud Big Data AWS Analytics 137

KeyCDN

OCTOBER 2, 2018

In the world of web development, those who become experts usually do so by learning from their predecessors. Reading and following the right web development blogs makes it much easier to get a solid education. That’s why we’ve compiled an exhaustive list of web development blogs and newsletters to make this process easier.

Development 75

Development Website Design Code 75

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 14, 2021

Gartner defines AIOps as the combination of “big data and machine learning to automate IT operations processes, including event correlation, anomaly detection, and causality determination.” Only deterministic AIOps technology enables fully automated cloud operations across the entire enterprise development lifecycle.

Artificial Intelligence 208

Artificial Intelligence DevOps Innovation Metrics 208

ScaleOut Software

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

At the same time, telemetry snapshots are stored in a data lake, such as HDFS , for offline batch analysis and visualization using big data tools like Spark. This new, object-oriented software technique provides a memory-based orchestration framework for tracking and analyzing telemetry from each data source.

Analytics 52

Analytics Architecture Scalability Software Architecture 52

All Things Distributed

AUGUST 16, 2011

Government and Big Data. One particular early use case for AWS GovCloud (US) will be massive data processing and analytics. The scalability, flexibility and the elasticity of AWS makes it an ideal environment for the agencies to run their analytics. Driving down the cost of Big-Data analytics.

AWS 111

AWS Government Big Data Cloud 111

Testsigma

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

With the latest developments in IT sector services, the sector of QA testing has seen significant improvement and growth. The implementation of emerging technologies has helped improve the process of software development, testing, design and deployment. Multi-experience has been one of the top developments trends in technology in 2020.

Artificial Intelligence 92

Artificial Intelligence Software Software IoT 92

All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

Today, there are thousands of machine learning scientists and developers applying machine learning in various places, from recommendations to fraud detection, from inventory levels to book classification to abusive review detection. in ML and neural networks) and access to vast amounts of data.

AWS 165

AWS Lambda Artificial Intelligence Mobile 165

The Morning Paper

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

AliGraph covers Alibaba’s distributed graph engine supporting the development of new GNN applications. Their dataset has about 7B edges… Meanwhile, AnalyticDB is Alibaba’s real-time OLAP RDBMS handling 10PB of data (in excess of 100 trillion rows!). So it’s great to see some papers from Alibaba and Tencent here.

Blockchain 46

Blockchain Hardware Google Analytics 46

All Things Distributed

APRIL 27, 2011

In the 2010 Shareholder Letter Jeff Bezos writes about the unique technologies developed at Amazon.com over the years. To meet these demanding and unusual requirements, weve developed several alternative, purpose-built persistence solutions, including our own key-value store and single table store. Comments ().

Technology 151

Technology Technology AWS Storage 151

All Things Distributed

AUGUST 22, 2011

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. Driving down the cost of Big-Data analytics.

Cloud 117

Cloud Cache AWS Storage 117

All Things Distributed

FEBRUARY 25, 2011

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. A simple scenario is for example the ability to clearly identify production from staging and development environments.

AWS 121

AWS Cloud Scalability Storage 121

All Things Distributed

JANUARY 19, 2011

Flexibility is one of the key principles of Amazon Web Services - developers can select any programming language and software package, any operating system, any middleware and any database to build systems and applications that meet their requirements. AWS Elastic Beanstalk: A Quick and Simple Way into the Cloud. Comments ().

AWS 115

AWS Cloud Java Operating System 115

All Things Distributed

FEBRUARY 17, 2011

been running at a traditional hosting site for many years until this preferred simple solution became available: today marks that day and I couldnt be happier about it. More details about the website feature of Amazon S3 can be found here and in Jeff Barrs blog post on the AWS developer blog. Amazon S3 FTW! Contact Info. Werner Vogels.

AWS 134

AWS Website Storage Servers 134

All Things Distributed

JULY 11, 2011

With this change, we will improve the granularity of pricing information you receive by introducing a Spot Instance price per Availability Zone rather than a Spot Instance price per Region. Customers whose bids exceed the Spot price gain access to the available Spot Instances and run as long as the bid exceeds the Spot Price.

AWS 85

AWS Storage Cloud Big Data 85

All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 9, 2010

Amazon S3 has always been a scalable, durable and available data repository for almost any customer workload. This is especially true for customers managing HD video or data-intensive instruments such as genomic sequencers. Driving down the cost of Big-Data analytics. Who has files larger than 5GB?

AWS 80

AWS Big Data Scalability Storage 80

All Things Distributed

MARCH 24, 2011

Up to 200 developers and designers will get together to hack up interesting applications using the Internets APIs and SDKs. To make it easy we have free AWS usage credits available onsite for who ever needs them. If you want to be that team of 5-7 developer/designers you can sign up using this form.

AWS 93

AWS Internet Internet Storage 93

All Things Distributed

MAY 24, 2011

I am excited that today both the Route 53 , the highly available and scalable DNS service, and the Elastic Load Balancing teams are releasing new functionality that has been frequently requested by their customers: Route 53 now GA : Route 53 is now Generally Available and will provide an availability SLA of 100%. Contact Info.

Internet 114

Internet Internet AWS Scalability 114

The Netflix TechBlog

JULY 26, 2021

From the moment a Netflix film or series is pitched and long before it becomes available on Netflix, it goes through many phases. The paradigm spans across methods, tools, and technologies and is usually defined in contrast to analytical reporting and predictive modeling which are more strategic (vs. tactical) in nature.

Big Data 253

Big Data Government Analytics Processing 253

Highly Scalable

MARCH 10, 2015

Although there are many books on data mining in general and its applications to marketing and customer relationship management in particular [BE11, AS14, PR13 etc.], The rest of the article is organized as follows: We first introduce a simple framework that ties together a retailer’s actions, profits and data.

Retail 152

Retail C++ Analytics Metrics 152

Testsigma

MAY 7, 2020

IBM Big Data and Analytics Hub website cited a case study, where a US insurance company was estimating 15% of their testing efforts to be just test data collection for the backend system and the frontend system. It is a high-risk process because the sensitive data of customers’ is at stake.

Testing 60

Testing Storage Database Processing 60

All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

This incredible power is available for anyone to use in the usual pay-as-you-go model, removing the investment barrier that has kept many organizations from adopting GPUs for their workloads even though they knew there would be significant performance benefit. The different stages were then load balanced across the available units.

AWS 136

AWS Latency Programming Architecture 136

All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 3, 2009

Today a powerful new feature is available for our Amazon EC2 customers: the ability to boot their instances from Amazon EBS (Elastic Block Store). A wide variety of operating systems and software configurations is available for use. with new security patches installed), or add new user data. Comments (). Contact Info.

AWS 60

AWS Storage Operating System Cloud 60

All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 5, 2010

I am very excited that today we have launched Amazon Route 53, a high-performance and highly-available Domain Name System (DNS) service. Route 53 provides Authoritative DNS functionality implemented using a world-wide network of highly-available DNS servers. Driving down the cost of Big-Data analytics.

Cloud 117

Cloud Internet Internet AWS 117

All Things Distributed

APRIL 28, 2010

Availability - The cloud makes it possible to build resilient applications to make sure they can survive different failure scenarios. Currently, each AWS Region contains multiple Availability Zones, which are distinct locations that are engineered to be insulated from failures in other Availability Zones. Contact Info.

AWS 61

AWS Cloud Latency Storage 61