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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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Mythbusting the Analytics Journey

The Netflix TechBlog

Part of our series on who works in Analytics at Netflix?—?and and what the role entails by Alex Diamond This Q&A aims to mythbust some common misconceptions about succeeding in analytics at a big tech company. Within a few months I’d picked up BI tools, predictive modeling, and data ingestion/ETL.

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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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What is IT automation?

Dynatrace

While automating IT practices can save administrators a lot of time, without AIOps, the system is only as intelligent as the humans who program it. This requires significant data engineering efforts, as well as work to build machine-learning models. Big data automation tools. Monitoring automation is ongoing.

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2021 Data/AI Salary Survey

O'Reilly

64% of the respondents took part in training or obtained certifications in the past year, and 31% reported spending over 100 hours in training programs, ranging from formal graduate degrees to reading blog posts. To nobody’s surprise, our survey showed that data science and AI professionals are mostly male. Salaries by Gender.

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Sustainability at AWS re:Invent 2022 All the talks and videos I could find…

Adrian Cockcroft

Margaret leads the worldwide solution architect program for sustainability, and gives an excellent talk on how customers should think about optimizing their workloads. STP213 Scaling global carbon footprint management — Blake Blackwell Persefoni Manager Data Engineering and Michael Floyd AWS Head of Sustainability Solutions.

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Experimentation is a major focus of Data Science across Netflix

The Netflix TechBlog

Curious to learn more about other Data Science and Engineering functions at Netflix? To learn about Analytics and Viz Engineering, have a look at Analytics at Netflix: Who We Are and What We Do by Molly Jackman & Meghana Reddy and How Our Paths Brought Us to Data and Netflix by Julie Beckley & Chris Pham.