The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 4, 2024

Operational automation–including but not limited to, auto diagnosis, auto remediation, auto configuration, auto tuning, auto scaling, auto debugging, and auto testing–is key to the success of modern data platforms. This work would have not been possible without the solid, in-depth collaborations.

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DZone

DECEMBER 21, 2020

Setting up a data warehouse is the first step towards fully utilizing big data analysis. Still, it is one of many that need to be taken before you can generate value from the data you gather. An important step in that chain of the process is data modeling and transformation.

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The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 2, 2021

At Netflix, our data scientists span many areas of technical specialization, including experimentation, causal inference, machine learning, NLP, modeling, and optimization. Together with data analytics and data engineering, we comprise the larger, centralized Data Science and Engineering group.

Analytics 207

Analytics Innovation C++ Engineering 207

High Scalability

APRIL 14, 2020

Scrapinghub is hiring a Senior Software Engineer (Big Data/AI). this is going to be a challenging journey for any backend engineer! Etleap is analyst-friendly , enterprise-grade ETL-as-a-service , built for Redshift and Snowflake data warehouses and S3/Glue data lakes. Try out their platform.

Education 105

Education Software Engineering Scalability Engineering 105

High Scalability

MAY 12, 2020

Scrapinghub is hiring a Senior Software Engineer (Big Data/AI). this is going to be a challenging journey for any backend engineer! Etleap is analyst-friendly , enterprise-grade ETL-as-a-service , built for Redshift and Snowflake data warehouses and S3/Glue data lakes. Try out their platform.

Education 102

Education Software Engineering Scalability Engineering 102

High Scalability

MARCH 24, 2020

Scrapinghub is hiring a Senior Software Engineer (Big Data/AI). this is going to be a challenging journey for any backend engineer! Etleap is analyst-friendly , enterprise-grade ETL-as-a-service , built for Redshift and Snowflake data warehouses and S3/Glue data lakes. Who's Hiring?

Education 105

Education Software Engineering Engineering Big Data 105

High Scalability

APRIL 28, 2020

Scrapinghub is hiring a Senior Software Engineer (Big Data/AI). this is going to be a challenging journey for any backend engineer! Etleap is analyst-friendly , enterprise-grade ETL-as-a-service , built for Redshift and Snowflake data warehouses and S3/Glue data lakes. Try out their platform.

Education 102

Education Software Engineering Scalability Engineering 102

High Scalability

MARCH 30, 2020

Scrapinghub is hiring a Senior Software Engineer (Big Data/AI). this is going to be a challenging journey for any backend engineer! Etleap is analyst-friendly , enterprise-grade ETL-as-a-service , built for Redshift and Snowflake data warehouses and S3/Glue data lakes. Try out their platform.

Education 105

Education Software Engineering Engineering Big Data 105

High Scalability

MAY 26, 2020

Scrapinghub is hiring a Senior Software Engineer (Big Data/AI). this is going to be a challenging journey for any backend engineer! Etleap is analyst-friendly , enterprise-grade ETL-as-a-service , built for Redshift and Snowflake data warehouses and S3/Glue data lakes. Try out their platform.

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Education AWS Software Engineering Scalability 100

The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

I bring my breadth of big data tools and technologies while Julie has been building statistical models for the past decade. [Chris] Julie and I joined the Streaming DSE team at Netflix a few years ago and have been close colleagues and friends since then.

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Analytics Education Innovation Engineering 223

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

Artificial Intelligence 101

Artificial Intelligence Big Data Data Engineering Latency 101

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. There is a strong argument for ELT i.e. extract, load, and transform model. Classic ETL. Late transformation.

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The Netflix TechBlog

JULY 21, 2022

We at Netflix, as a streaming service running on millions of devices, have a tremendous amount of data about device capabilities/characteristics and runtime data in our big data platform. With large data, comes the opportunity to leverage the data for predictive and classification based analysis.

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Big Data Cache Engineering Data Engineering 179

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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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

For example, a job would reprocess aggregates for the past 3 days because it assumes that there would be late arriving data, but data prior to 3 days isn’t worth the cost of reprocessing. Backfill: Backfilling datasets is a common operation in big data processing. data arrives too late to be useful).

Processing 210

Processing Big Data Efficiency Engineering 210

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.” Netflix’s diverse data landscape made it challenging to capture all the right data and conforming it to a common data model.

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Infrastructure Big Data Transportation Architecture 219

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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Efficiency Engineering Design Storage 110

The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 21, 2020

Some of the optimizations are prerequisites for a high-performance data warehouse. Sometimes Data Engineers write downstream ETLs on ingested data to optimize the data/metadata layouts to make other ETL processes cheaper and faster.

Storage 203

Storage Latency Efficiency Data Engineering 203

All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 7, 2015

Today, I am excited to share with you a brand new service called Amazon QuickSight that aims to simplify the process of deriving insights from a wide variety of data sources in a fast and affordable manner. Big data challenges. We believe this is one of the critical parts of our big data offerings.

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The Netflix TechBlog

MAY 26, 2020

These characteristics allow for an on-call response time that is relaxed and more in line with traditional big data analytical pipelines. And excellent logging is needed for debugging purposes and supportability.

Network 150

Network Tuning AWS Big Data 150

Abhishek Tiwari

JULY 7, 2023

In the era of big data and complex data processing, data pipelines have emerged as a popular solution for managing and manipulating data. They provide a systematic approach to extract, transform, and load (ETL) data from various sources, enabling organizations to derive valuable insights.

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Logistics Transportation Scalability Data Engineering 52

The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 18, 2022

by Jun He , Akash Dwivedi , Natallia Dzenisenka , Snehal Chennuru , Praneeth Yenugutala , Pawan Dixit At Netflix, Data and Machine Learning (ML) pipelines are widely used and have become central for the business, representing diverse use cases that go beyond recommendations, predictions and data transformations.

Java 202

Java Scalability Traffic Architecture 202

Abhishek Tiwari

DECEMBER 27, 2017

In 2018, we will see new data integration patterns those rely either on a shared high-performance distributed storage interface ( Alluxio ) or a common data format ( Apache Arrow ) sitting between compute and storage. For instance, Alluxio, originally known as Tachyon, can potentially use Arrow as its in-memory data structure.

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Big Data Artificial Intelligence Storage Hardware 49

All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

They require teams of data engineers to spend months building complex data models and synthesizing the data before they can generate their first report. The cost and complexity to implement, scale, and use BI makes it difficult for most companies to make data analysis ubiquitous across their organizations.

Analytics 152

Analytics Availability Media Social Media 152

The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

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. The two main challenges with this approach are establishing an easy contribution framework and handling Netflix’s scale of data.

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