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Zendesk Moves from DynamoDB to MySQL and S3 to Save over 80% in Costs

InfoQ

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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5 key areas for tech leaders to watch in 2020

O'Reilly

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. The shift to cloud native design is transforming both software architecture and infrastructure and operations. Coincidence? This follows a 3% drop in 2018.

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Optimizing data warehouse storage

The Netflix TechBlog

By Anupom Syam Background At Netflix, our current data warehouse contains hundreds of Petabytes of data stored in AWS S3 , and each day we ingest and create additional Petabytes. Some of the optimizations are prerequisites for a high-performance data warehouse. Transparency to end-users.

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Building and Scaling Data Lineage at Netflix to Improve Data Infrastructure Reliability, and…

The Netflix TechBlog

Finally, imagine yourself in the role of a data platform reliability engineer tasked with providing advanced lead time to data pipeline (ETL) owners by proactively identifying issues upstream to their ETL jobs. Design a flexible data model ? —?Represent Enable seamless integration?—? push or pull.

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Orchestrating Data/ML Workflows at Scale With Netflix Maestro

The Netflix TechBlog

As the usage increased, we had to vertically scale the system to keep up and were approaching AWS instance type limits. increasing at > 100% a year, the need for a scalable data workflow orchestrator has become paramount for Netflix’s business needs. Meson was based on a single leader architecture with high availability.

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

All Things Distributed

As I mentioned, we live in a world where massive volumes of data are being generated, every day, from connected devices, websites, mobile apps, and customer applications running on top of AWS infrastructure. Auto-discovery : One of the challenges with BI is discovering and accessing the data.

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