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Data Engineers of Netflix?—?Interview with Kevin Wylie

The Netflix TechBlog

I was later hired into my first purely data gig where I was able to deepen my knowledge of big data. After that, I joined MySpace back at its peak as a data engineer and got my first taste of data warehousing at internet-scale. Over the course of your time here, how has your role evolved?

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How Our Paths Brought Us to Data and Netflix

The Netflix TechBlog

I bring my breadth of big data tools and technologies while Julie has been building statistical models for the past decade. Over the course of the four years it became clear that I enjoyed combining analytical skills with solving real world problems, so a PhD in Statistics was a natural next step. Do they cause less errors?

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Hacking with AWS at The Next Web Hackaton - All Things Distributed

All Things Distributed

Over the past years The Next Web Conference has become a premier conference on internet life and its technologies. Amsterdam is of course the ideal place for such a conference :-). Up to 200 developers and designers will get together to hack up interesting applications using the Internets APIs and SDKs. . | Permalink.

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Track Thousands of Assets in a Time of Crisis Using Real-Time Digital Twins

ScaleOut Software

Unlike powerful big data platforms which focus on deep and often lengthy analysis to make future projections, what real-time digital twins offer is timeliness in obtaining quick answers to pressing questions using the most current data.

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Track Thousands of Assets in a Time of Crisis Using Real-Time Digital Twins

ScaleOut Software

Unlike powerful big data platforms which focus on deep and often lengthy analysis to make future projections, what real-time digital twins offer is timeliness in obtaining quick answers to pressing questions using the most current data.

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Driving Bandwidth Cost Down for AWS Customers. - All Things.

All Things Distributed

In Amazon Web Services there are similar dimensions that are forever important to our customers; scale, reliability, security, performance, ease of use, and of course pricing. a Fast and Scalable NoSQL Database Service Designed for Internet Scale Applications. Driving down the cost of Big-Data analytics.

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This week in review: GPUs, Zombies, Biomimicry and Tom Waits.

All Things Distributed

Big news this week was of course the launch of Cluster GPU instances for Amazon EC2. a Fast and Scalable NoSQL Database Service Designed for Internet Scale Applications. Driving down the cost of Big-Data analytics. By Werner Vogels on 19 November 2010 07:51 AM. Comments (). Countdown to What is Next in AWS.

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