The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 4, 2024

Evolving to Auto Remediation: Service Architecture Methodology To address the above-mentioned challenges, our basic methodology is to integrate the rule-based classifier with an ML service to generate recommendations, and use a configuration service to apply the recommendations automatically: Generating recommendations.

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InfoQ

JULY 14, 2023

Mei-Chin Tsai, Vinod discuss the internal architecture of Azure Cosmos DB and how it achieves high availability, low latency, and scalability. By Mei-Chin Tsai, Vinod Sridharan

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High Scalability

APRIL 14, 2020

T riplebyte lets exceptional software engineers skip screening steps at hundreds of top tech companies like Apple, Dropbox, Mixpanel, and Instacart. Learn to balance architecture trade-offs and design scalable enterprise-level software. Make your job search O (1), not O ( n ). Apply here. Need excellent people? Advertise your job here!

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High Scalability

MAY 12, 2020

T riplebyte lets exceptional software engineers skip screening steps at hundreds of top tech companies like Apple, Dropbox, Mixpanel, and Instacart. Learn to balance architecture trade-offs and design scalable enterprise-level software. Make your job search O (1), not O ( n ). Apply here. Need excellent people? Advertise your job here!

Education 102

Education Software Engineering Scalability Engineering 102

High Scalability

APRIL 28, 2020

T riplebyte lets exceptional software engineers skip screening steps at hundreds of top tech companies like Apple, Dropbox, Mixpanel, and Instacart. Learn to balance architecture trade-offs and design scalable enterprise-level software. Make your job search O (1), not O ( n ). Apply here. Need excellent people? Advertise your job here!

Education 102

Education Software Engineering Scalability Engineering 102

High Scalability

MAY 26, 2020

Created by former senior-level AWS engineers of 15 years. Learn to balance architecture trade-offs and design scalable enterprise-level software. Etleap is analyst-friendly , enterprise-grade ETL-as-a-service , built for Redshift and Snowflake data warehouses and S3/Glue data lakes. Learn the Good Parts of AWS.

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Simform

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Stream processing has become a core part of enterprise data architecture today due to the explosive growth of data from sources such as IoT sensors, security logs, and web applications. This blog discusses the topic of stream processing in detail to help you navigate its landscape with ease.

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Processing IoT Architecture Data Engineering 52

O'Reilly

FEBRUARY 2, 2020

Collaboration between AI developers and operations teams will lead to growing pains on both sides, especially since many data scientists and AI researchers have had limited exposure to, or knowledge of, software engineering. O’Reilly Strata Data & AI Conference , San Jose, March 15-18.

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Abhishek Tiwari

JULY 12, 2018

Unfortunately, building data pipelines remains a daunting, time-consuming, and costly activity. Not everyone is operating at Netflix or Spotify scale data engineering function. Often companies underestimate the necessary effort and cost involved to build and maintain data pipelines.

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O'Reilly

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

This year’s growth in Python usage was buoyed by its increasing popularity among data scientists and machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI) engineers. Software architecture, infrastructure, and operations are each changing rapidly. Trends in software architecture, infrastructure, and operations.

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The Symphonia

JUNE 19, 2018

I was fortunate to be both presenting a 2-day workshop (on AWS Serverless Architectures and Continuous Deployment) as well as hosting a full-day Serverless track of talks. One of the catalysts for starting Symphonia was the massive interest in my article on “ Serverless Architectures ” that is published on Martin Fowler’s site.

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Abhishek Tiwari

DECEMBER 27, 2017

Kubernetes has emerged as go to container orchestration platform for data engineering teams. In 2018, a widespread adaptation of Kubernetes for big data processing is anitcipated. Organisations are already using Kubernetes for a variety of workloads [1] [2] and data workloads are up next.

Big Data 63

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InfoQ

APRIL 15, 2024

He specifically delved into Venice DB, the NoSQL data store used for feature persistence. At the QCon London 2024 conference, Félix GV from LinkedIn discussed the AI/ML platform powering the company’s products. By Rafal Gancarz

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Abhishek Tiwari

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

The evolution of your technology architecture should depend on the size, culture, and skill set of your engineering organization. There are no hard-and-fast rules to figure out interdependency between technology architecture and engineering organization but below is what I think can really work well for product startup.

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InfoQ

DECEMBER 29, 2023

Zendesk reduced its data storage costs by over 80% by migrating from DynamoDB to a tiered storage solution using MySQL and S3. The company considered different storage technologies and decided to combine the relational database and the object store to strike a balance between querybility and scalability while keeping the costs down.

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Abhishek Tiwari

DECEMBER 22, 2017

Cheap storage and on-demand compute in the cloud coupled with the emergence of new big data frameworks and tools are forcing us to rethink the whole ETL and data warehousing architecture. In addition, this approach is more tailored for both structured as well unstructured data sets. Classic ETL. Stateless and elastic.

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InfoQ

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

HubSpot adopted routing messages over multiple Kafka topics (called swimlanes) for the same producer to avoid the build-up in the consumer group lag and prioritize the processing of real-time traffic.

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InfoQ

DECEMBER 20, 2023

InfoQ is delighted to announce a new two-day conference, InfoQ Dev Summit Boston 2024, taking place June 24-25, 2024. This event is designed to help senior developers navigate their immediate development challenges, focusing exclusively on the technical aspects that matter right now. By Artenisa Chatziou

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The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 25, 2019

We adopted the following mission statement to guide our investments: “Provide a complete and accurate data lineage system enabling decision-makers to win moments of truth.” Nonetheless, Netflix data landscape (see below) is complex and many teams collaborate effectively for sharing the responsibility of our data system management.

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Abhishek Tiwari

DECEMBER 23, 2017

Data integration generally requires in-depth domain knowledge, a strong understanding of data schemas and underlying relationships. This can be time-consuming and bit challenging if you are dealing with hundreds of data sources and thousands of event types (see my recent article on ELT architecture ).

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The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 21, 2020

This article will list some of the use cases of AutoOptimize, discuss the design principles that help enhance efficiency, and present the high-level architecture. Some of the optimizations are prerequisites for a high-performance data warehouse.

Storage 203

Storage Latency Efficiency Data Engineering 203

InfoQ

JULY 3, 2023

LinkedIn introduced Couchbase as a centralized caching tier for scaling member profile reads to handle increasing traffic that has outgrown their existing database cluster. The new solution achieved over 99% hit rate, helped reduce tail latencies by more than 60% and costs by 10% annually. By Rafal Gancarz

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InfoQ

AUGUST 3, 2023

AWS recently announced the general availability (GA) of Amazon EC2 P5 instances powered by the latest NVIDIA H100 Tensor Core GPUs suitable for users that require high performance and scalability in AI/ML and HPC workloads. The GA is a follow-up to the earlier announcement of the development of the infrastructure. By Steef-Jan Wiggers

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

These challenges are currently addressed in suboptimal and less cost efficient ways by individual local teams to fulfill the needs, such as Lookback: This is a generic and simple approach that data engineers use to solve the data accuracy problem. Users configure the workflow to read the data in a window (e.g.

Processing 210

Processing Big Data Efficiency Engineering 210

The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Meson was based on a single leader architecture with high availability. It serves thousands of users, including data scientists, data engineers, machine learning engineers, software engineers, content producers, and business analysts, for various use cases. Figure 1 shows the high-level architecture.

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Uber Engineering

AUGUST 14, 2019

Maintaining Uber’s large-scale data warehouse comes with an operational cost in terms of ETL functions and storage. Once identified, … The post Less is More: Engineering Data Warehouse Efficiency with Minimalist Design appeared first on Uber Engineering Blog.

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InfoQ

JULY 20, 2023

Microsoft recently announced the general availability (GA) of Azure Managed Lustre, a managed file system for high-performance computing (HPC) and AI workloads. By Steef-Jan Wiggers

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The Netflix TechBlog

MAY 26, 2020

Summary Providing Network Insight into the Cloud Network Infrastructure using VPC Flow Logs at hyper scale is made possible with the Sqooby architecture. After several iterations of this architecture and some tuning, Sqooby has proven to be able to scale.

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InfoQ

APRIL 7, 2021

Recently, Google announced A2 Virtual Machines (VMs)' general availability based on the NVIDIA Ampere A100 Tensor Core GPUs in Compute Engine.

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Abhishek Tiwari

JULY 20, 2019

The engineering organisation described may not work for you because of a team of 8-10 people is still a very big overhead. In this model, software architecture and code ownership is a reflection of the organisational model. Thirdly, let engineers themselves choose the delivery teams and organise them around the initiative.

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O'Reilly

JULY 15, 2020

Software engineers comprise the survey audience’s single largest cluster, over one quarter (27%) of respondents (Figure 1). If you combine the different architectural roles—i.e., Adding architects and engineers, we see that roughly 55% of the respondents are directly involved in software development.

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Abhishek Tiwari

DECEMBER 27, 2017

A common theme across all these trends is to remove the complexity by simplifying data management as a whole. In 2018, we anticipate that ETL will either lose relevance or the ETL process will disintegrate and be consumed by new data architectures. Unified data management architecture.

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Big Data Artificial Intelligence Storage Hardware 49

O'Reilly

MARCH 2, 2020

This year’s growth in Python usage was buoyed by its increasing popularity among data scientists and machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI) engineers. Software architecture, infrastructure, and operations are each changing rapidly. Key survey results: The C-suite is engaged with data quality.

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The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

Our data scientists often want to apply their knowledge of the business and statistics to fully understand the outcome of an experiment. Instead of relying on engineers to productionize scientific contributions, we’ve made a strategic bet to build an architecture that enables data scientists to easily contribute.

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Metrics Architecture Infrastructure Innovation 215

All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

The reality is that many traditional BI solutions are built on top of legacy desktop and on-premises architectures that are decades old. They require teams of data engineers to spend months building complex data models and synthesizing the data before they can generate their first report.

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The Netflix TechBlog

JANUARY 11, 2022

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. Curious to learn about what it’s like to be a Data Engineer at Netflix?

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