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. What is your favorite project?

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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. VLDB’19. Approximate query support.

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The Netflix TechBlog

JANUARY 13, 2022

This blog will explore these two systems and how they perform auto-diagnosis and remediation across our Big Data Platform and Real-time infrastructure. In the future, we are looking to automate this process. The streaming platform recently added Data Mesh , and we need to expand Streaming Pensive to cover that.

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Dynatrace

JULY 6, 2022

At its most basic, automating IT processes works by executing scripts or procedures either on a schedule or in response to particular events, such as checking a file into a code repository. Adding AIOps to automation processes makes the volume of data that applications and multicloud environments generate much less overwhelming.

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ScaleOut Software

JUNE 15, 2020

When analyzing telemetry from a large population of data sources, such as a fleet of rental cars or IoT devices in “smart cities” deployments, it’s difficult if not impossible for conventional streaming analytics platforms to track the behavior of each individual data source and derive actionable information in real time.

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ScaleOut Software

JUNE 15, 2020

When analyzing telemetry from a large population of data sources, such as a fleet of rental cars or IoT devices in “smart cities” deployments, it’s difficult if not impossible for conventional streaming analytics platforms to track the behavior of each individual data source and derive actionable information in real time.

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ScaleOut Software

JULY 19, 2021

Real-Time Device Tracking with In-Memory Computing Can Fill an Important Gap in Today’s Streaming Analytics Platforms. The Limitations of Today’s Streaming Analytics. How are we managing the torrent of telemetry that flows into analytics systems from these devices? The list goes on.

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 15, 2022

In fact, Gartner estimates that 80% of enterprises will shut down their on-premises data centers by 2025. This transition to public, private, and hybrid cloud is driving organizations to automate and virtualize IT operations to lower costs and optimize cloud processes and systems. So, what is ITOps? What is ITOps? ITOps vs. AIOps.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 11, 2023

What the convergence of observability and security means for dev s – DevOps.com article To help developers build for the future and address security concerns, it is imperative they rethink the way they are collecting, operationalizing, and storing different types of data from a variety of sources.

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Scalegrid

MAY 13, 2020

Greenplum Database is a massively parallel processing (MPP) SQL database that is built and based on PostgreSQL. It can scale towards a multi-petabyte level data workload without a single issue, and it allows access to a cluster of powerful servers that will work together within a single SQL interface where you can view all of the data.

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Dynatrace

MARCH 24, 2023

Container orchestration is a process that automates the deployment and management of containerized applications and services at scale. Container orchestration enables organizations to manage and automate the many processes and services that comprise workflows. The post What is container orchestration?

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DZone

DECEMBER 21, 2020

Setting up a data warehouse is the first step towards fully utilizing big data analysis. Still, it is one of many that need to be taken before you can generate value from the data you gather. An important step in that chain of the process is data modeling and transformation.

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Dynatrace

JULY 6, 2020

Our customers have frequently requested support for this first new batch of services, which cover databases, big data, networks, and computing. See the health of your big data resources at a glance. Azure HDInsight supports a broad range of use cases including data warehousing, machine learning, and IoT analytics.

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Dynatrace

MAY 1, 2023

With 99% of organizations using multicloud environments , effectively monitoring cloud operations with AI-driven analytics and automation is critical. IT operations analytics (ITOA) with artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities supports faster cloud deployment of digital products and services and trusted business insights.

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The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 7, 2021

Cloud Network Insight is a suite of solutions that provides both operational and analytical insight into the cloud network infrastructure to address the identified problems. Network Availability: The expected continued growth of our ecosystem makes it difficult to understand our network bottlenecks and potential limits we may be reaching.

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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.

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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

The goal is to turn more data into insights so the whole organization can make data-driven decisions and automate processes. Grail data lakehouse delivers massively parallel processing for answers at scale Modern cloud-native computing is constantly upping the ante on data volume, variety, and velocity.

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ScaleOut Software

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

The volume of incoming telemetry challenges current telematics systems to keep up and quickly make sense of all the data. 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.

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

by Jun He , Yingyi Zhang , and Pawan Dixit Incremental processing is an approach to process new or changed data in workflows. The key advantage is that it only incrementally processes data that are newly added or updated to a dataset, instead of re-processing the complete dataset.

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DZone

JUNE 4, 2019

NVMe storage's strong performance, combined with the capacity and data availability benefits of shared NVMe storage over local SSD, makes it a strong solution for AI/ML infrastructures of any size. There are several AI/ML focused use cases to highlight.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Log management and analytics is an essential part of any organization’s infrastructure, and it’s no secret the industry has suffered from a shortage of innovation for several years. Several pain points have made it difficult for organizations to manage their data efficiently and create actual value. What’s next for Grail?

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Scalegrid

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

These elements work together to spread data over several locations physically distributed, possibly extending across different data centers while optimizing available storage resources. This process effectively duplicates essential parts of information to safeguard against potential loss.

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All Things Distributed

AUGUST 16, 2011

ITAR is the International Traffic in Arms Regulatory framework which stipulates for example that data must be stored in an environment where physical and logical access is restricted to US Persons. Government and Big Data. One particular early use case for AWS GovCloud (US) will be massive data processing and analytics.

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All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 20, 2017

For example, Kärcher, the maker of cleaning technologies, manages its entire fleet through the cloud solution "Kärcher Fleet" This transmits data from the company's cleaning devices e.g. about the status of maintenance and loading, when the machines are used, and where the machines are located. More than mere support.

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ScaleOut Software

APRIL 3, 2020

Within seconds, the software performs aggregate analysis of this data for all real-time digital twins. By avoiding the need to create or connect to complex databases and ship data to offline analytics systems, it can provide timely answers quickly and easily.

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ScaleOut Software

APRIL 3, 2020

Within seconds, the software performs aggregate analysis of this data for all real-time digital twins. By avoiding the need to create or connect to complex databases and ship data to offline analytics systems, it can provide timely answers quickly and easily.

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DZone

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Introduction With big data streaming platform and event ingestion service Azure Event Hubs , millions of events can be received and processed in a single second. Any real-time analytics provider or batching/storage adaptor can transform and store data supplied to an event hub.

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All Things Distributed

SEPTEMBER 6, 2013

Shell leverages AWS for big data analytics to help achieve these goals. Due to the exponential growth of the biology and informatics fields, Unilever needs to maintain this new program within a highly-scalable environment that supports parallel computation and heavy data storage demands.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 20, 2023

Causal AI—which brings AI-enabled actionable insights to IT operations—and a data lakehouse, such as Dynatrace Grail , can help break down silos among ITOps, DevSecOps, site reliability engineering, and business analytics teams. “The weakness of a data lake is they fail when you need to access them fast,” Pawlowski said.

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The Netflix TechBlog

JULY 26, 2021

Netflix is known for its loosely coupled microservice architecture and with a global studio footprint, surfacing and connecting the data from microservices into a studio data catalog in real time has become more important than ever. With the latest Data Mesh Platform, data movement in Netflix Studio reaches a new stage.

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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. The test data management for the company had become a big problem and had to be solved.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Data warehouses offer a single storage repository for structured data and provide a source of truth for organizations. However, organizations must structure and store data inputs in a specific format to enable extract, transform, and load processes, and efficiently query this data. Massively parallel processing.

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Scalegrid

MARCH 14, 2024

Defining Hybrid Cloud Strategy The decision-making process about where to situate data and applications is vital to any hybrid cloud solution. This consistency aids not only in application deployment but also simplifies scaling processes.

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All Things Distributed

JULY 11, 2011

Spot Instances are ideal for use cases like web and data crawling, financial analysis, grid computing, media transcoding, scientific research, and batch processing. Driving down the cost of Big-Data analytics. Introducing the AWS South America (Sao Paulo) Region. No Server Required - Jekyll & Amazon S3.

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Dynatrace

JULY 5, 2022

AIOps combines big data and machine learning to automate key IT operations processes, including anomaly detection and identification, event correlation, and root-cause analysis. To achieve these AIOps benefits, comprehensive AIOps tools incorporate four key stages of data processing: Collection. Aggregation.

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Highly Scalable

MAY 1, 2012

Statistical analysis and mining of huge multi-terabyte data sets is a common task nowadays, especially in the areas like web analytics and Internet advertising. Analysis of such large data sets often requires powerful distributed data stores like Hadoop and heavy data processing with techniques like MapReduce.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 25, 2022

NoOps is a concept in software development that seeks to automate processes and eliminate the need for an extensive IT operations team. But it might also result in the entire software development process falling apart. Can organizations really function without an operations team? What is NoOps? Evolution of NoOps.

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