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Data Engineers of Netflix?—?Interview with Kevin Wylie

The Netflix TechBlog

Data Engineers of Netflix?—?Interview 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, what drew you to data engineering?

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SQL Extensions for Time-Series Data in QuestDB

DZone

Introduction Traditionally, SQL has been used for relational databases and data warehouses. However, in recent years there has been an exponential increase in the amount of data that connected systems produce, which has brought about a need for new ways to store and analyze such information.

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Spice up your Analytics: Amazon QuickSight Now Generally Available in N. Virginia, Oregon, and Ireland.

All Things Distributed

They require teams of data engineers to spend months building complex data models and synthesizing the data before they can generate their first report. Let’s walk through some of the core experiences of QuickSight that make it so easy to set up, connect to your data sources, and build visualizations in minutes.

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How Data Inspires Building a Scalable, Resilient and Secure Cloud Infrastructure At Netflix

The Netflix TechBlog

While our engineering teams have and continue to build solutions to lighten this cognitive load (better guardrails, improved tooling, …), data and its derived products are critical elements to understanding, optimizing and abstracting our infrastructure. What will be the cost of rolling out the winning cell of an AB test to all users?

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Expanding the Cloud: Introducing Amazon QuickSight

All Things Distributed

However, the data infrastructure to collect, store and process data is geared toward developers (e.g., In AWS’ quest to enable the best data storage options for engineers, we have built several innovative database solutions like Amazon RDS, Amazon RDS for Aurora, Amazon DynamoDB, and Amazon Redshift.

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Ready-to-go sample data pipelines with Dataflow

The Netflix TechBlog

Optionally, this step can use the Write-Audit-Publish pattern to ensure that data is correct before it is made available to the rest of the company. See example below: - template: id: wap type: wap tables: - ${CATALOG}/${DATABASE}/${TABLE} write_jobs: - job: id: write type: Spark spark: script: $S3{./src/sparksql_write.sql}

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5 data integration trends that will define the future of ETL in 2018

Abhishek Tiwari

ETL refers to extract, transform, load and it is generally used for data warehousing and data integration. ETL is a product of the relational database era and it has not evolved much in last decade. There are several emerging data trends that will define the future of ETL in 2018.