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In-Stream Big Data Processing

Highly Scalable

The shortcomings and drawbacks of batch-oriented data processing were widely recognized by the Big Data community quite a long time ago. This system has been designed to supplement and succeed the existing Hadoop-based system that had too high latency of data processing and too high maintenance costs.

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Turbocharge Your Apache Spark Jobs for Unmatched Performance

DZone

Apache Spark is a leading platform in the field of big data processing, known for its speed, versatility, and ease of use. Understanding Apache Spark Apache Spark is a unified computing engine designed for large-scale data processing. However, getting the most out of Spark often involves fine-tuning and optimization.

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Data Engineers of Netflix?—?Interview with Pallavi Phadnis

The Netflix TechBlog

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.

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Data Engineers of Netflix?—?Interview with Kevin Wylie

The Netflix TechBlog

Interview with Kevin Wylie This post is part of our “Data Engineers of Netflix” series, where our very own data engineers talk about their journeys to Data Engineering @ Netflix. Kevin Wylie is a Data Engineer on the Content Data Science and Engineering team. What drew you to Netflix?

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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. 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. Driving down the cost of Big-Data analytics.

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Top 15 Software Testing Trends to Watch Out in 2021

DZone

The introduction of innovative technologies has brought the newest updates in software testing, development, design, and delivery. Digital transformation is yet another significant focus point for the sectors and the enterprises that are ranking top on cloud and business analytics. Besides, AI and ML seem to reach a new level.

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A Day in the Life of an Experimentation and Causal Inference Scientist @ Netflix

The Netflix TechBlog

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.

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