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1. Streamlining Membership Data Engineering at Netflix with Psyberg

The Netflix TechBlog

By Abhinaya Shetty , Bharath Mummadisetty At Netflix, our Membership and Finance Data Engineering team harnesses diverse data related to plans, pricing, membership life cycle, and revenue to fuel analytics, power various dashboards, and make data-informed decisions. Some techniques we used were: 1.

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What is IT automation?

Dynatrace

And what are the best strategies to reduce manual labor so your team can focus on more mission-critical issues? This requires significant data engineering efforts, as well as work to build machine-learning models. Creating a sound IT automation strategy. So, what is IT automation? What is IT automation?

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Friends don't let friends build data pipelines

Abhishek Tiwari

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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A case for ELT

Abhishek Tiwari

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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Optimizing data warehouse storage

The Netflix TechBlog

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.

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Incremental Processing using Netflix Maestro and Apache Iceberg

The Netflix TechBlog

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.

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Experimentation is a major focus of Data Science across Netflix

The Netflix TechBlog

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?