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My (Seemingly) Random Walk to Netflix

The Netflix TechBlog

Part of our series on who works in Analytics at Netflix?—?and That person grew up dreaming of working in the entertainment industry. Upon graduation, they received an offer from Netflix to become an analytics engineer, and pursue their lifelong dream of orchestrating the beautiful synergy of analytics and entertainment.

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Data Engineers of Netflix?—?Interview with Kevin Wylie

The Netflix TechBlog

In this post, Kevin talks about his extensive experience in content analytics at Netflix since joining more than 10 years ago. What keeps me engaged and enjoying data engineering is giving super-suits and adrenaline shots to analytics engineers and data scientists. are these two movie names in different languages really the same?)

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

The Netflix TechBlog

Together with data analytics and data engineering, we comprise the larger, centralized Data Science and Engineering group. We talked to scientists from areas like Payments & Partnerships, Content & Marketing Analytics Research, Content Valuation, Customer Service, Product Innovation, and Studio Production.

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Expanding the Cloud - Cluster Compute Instances for Amazon EC2.

All Things Distributed

Cluster Computer Instances for Amazon EC2 are a new instance type specifically designed for High Performance Computing applications. Other industries using Amazon EC2 for HPC-style workloads include pharmaceuticals, oil exploration, industrial and automotive design, media and entertainment, and more. Expanding the Cloud â??

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What is web application security? Everything you need to know.

Dynatrace

Examples range from online banking to personal entertainment delivery and e-commerce. Web application security is the process of protecting web applications against various types of threats that are designed to exploit vulnerabilities in an application’s code. Why is web application security important?

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Come On and Take a Free (Regulatory) Ride

The Agile Manager

In the process of becoming Big Media, companies like Google have become Big Surveillance, both directly (the data they capture and analyze) and indirectly (the multitude of 3rd party firms in the analytics chain).

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Dynatrace RUM expands coverage for modern mobile UI frameworks

Dynatrace

We use mobile apps to communicate, entertain us, conduct business, shop, and much more—on the go, anytime and anywhere. In order to make informed decisions, business owners, UX designers, and developers require data—specifically, they rely on insights from their data on a large scale, ideally in a single location.

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