The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Democratizing Stream Processing @ Netflix By Guil Pires , Mark Cho , Mingliang Liu , Sujay Jain Data powers much of what we do at Netflix. On the Data Platform team, we build the infrastructure used across the company to process data at scale. The existing Data Mesh Processors have a lot of overlap with SQL.

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The Netflix TechBlog

JULY 26, 2021

This happens at an unprecedented scale and introduces many interesting challenges; one of the challenges is how to provide visibility of Studio data across multiple phases and systems to facilitate operational excellence and empower decision making. With the latest Data Mesh Platform, data movement in Netflix Studio reaches a new stage.

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DZone

DECEMBER 27, 2023

Welcome to the first post in our exciting series on mastering offline data pipeline's best practices, focusing on the potent combination of Apache Airflow and data processing engines like Hive and Spark. Working together, they form the backbone of many modern data engineering solutions.

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The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Data Engineers of Netflix?—?Interview Interview with Pallavi Phadnis This post is part of our “ Data Engineers of Netflix ” series, where our very own data engineers talk about their journeys to Data Engineering @ Netflix. Pallavi Phadnis is a Senior Software Engineer on the Product Data Science and Engineering team.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 20, 2023

Modern organizations ingest petabytes of data daily, but legacy approaches to log analysis and management cannot accommodate this volume of data. based financial services group, discussed how the bank uses log monitoring on the Dynatrace platform with an emphasis on observability and security data.

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The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 27, 2020

By Tianlong Chen and Ioannis Papapanagiotou Netflix has more than 195 million subscribers that generate petabytes of data everyday. Data scientists and engineers collect this data from our subscribers and videos, and implement data analytics models to discover customer behaviour with the goal of maximizing user joy.

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The Morning Paper

DECEMBER 13, 2020

An overview of end-to-end entity resolution for big data , Christophides et al., It’s an important part of many modern data workflows, and an area I’ve been wrestling with in one of my own projects. Dynamic approaches schedule block processing on the fly to maximise efficiency. ACM Computing Surveys, Dec.

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The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 25, 2019

Building and Scaling Data Lineage at Netflix to Improve Data Infrastructure Reliability, and Efficiency By: Di Lin , Girish Lingappa , Jitender Aswani Imagine yourself in the role of a data-inspired decision maker staring at a metric on a dashboard about to make a critical business decision but pausing to ask a question?—?“Can

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The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 21, 2020

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. We built AutoOptimize to efficiently and transparently optimize the data and metadata storage layout while maximizing their cost and performance benefits.

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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.

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DZone

AUGUST 23, 2023

In the era of big data, efficient data management and query performance are critical for organizations that want to get the best operational performance from their data investments.

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The Morning Paper

SEPTEMBER 8, 2019

Experiences with approximating queries in Microsoft’s production big-data clusters Kandula et al., Microsoft’s big data clusters have 10s of thousands of machines, and are used by thousands of users to run some pretty complex queries. Individual samplers need to be built to be high throughput and memory efficient.

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Dynatrace

JUNE 26, 2023

Software analytics offers the ability to gain and share insights from data emitted by software systems and related operational processes to develop higher-quality software faster while operating it efficiently and securely. This involves big data analytics and applying advanced AI and machine learning techniques, such as causal AI.

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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

How do you get more value from petabytes of exponentially exploding, increasingly heterogeneous data? The short answer: The three pillars of observability—logs, metrics, and traces—converging on a data lakehouse. To solve this problem, Dynatrace launched Grail, its causational data lakehouse , in 2022.

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DZone

JANUARY 19, 2023

Because with the advent of cloud providers, we are less worried about managing data centers. This leads to an increase in the size of data as well. Big data is generated and transported using various mediums in single requests. Everything is available within seconds on-demand. We need to cut down on transportation.

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The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

and what the role entails by Julie Beckley & Chris Pham This Q&A provides insights into the diverse set of skills, projects, and culture within Data Science and Engineering (DSE) at Netflix through the eyes of two team members: Chris Pham and Julie Beckley. What was your path to working in data? There’s us to the right!

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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. In our experience, optimizing for operational efficiency requires answering one key question: for which tables does the maintenance cost supersede utility?

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Scalegrid

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

A distributed storage system is foundational in today’s data-driven landscape, ensuring data spread over multiple servers is reliable, accessible, and manageable. Understanding distributed storage is imperative as data volumes and the need for robust storage solutions rise.

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The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 1, 2021

Data Engineers of Netflix?—?Interview Interview with Samuel Setegne Samuel Setegne This post is part of our “Data Engineers of Netflix” interview series, where our very own data engineers talk about their journeys to Data Engineering @ Netflix. For example?—?clinical

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O'Reilly

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

” I’ve called out the data field’s rebranding efforts before; but even then, I acknowledged that these weren’t just new coats of paint. Each time, the underlying implementation changed a bit while still staying true to the larger phenomenon of “Analyzing Data for Fun and Profit.” Goodbye, Hadoop.

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

by Jun He , Yingyi Zhang , and Pawan Dixit Incremental processing is an approach to process new or changed data in workflows. The key advantage is that it only incrementally processes data that are newly added or updated to a dataset, instead of re-processing the complete dataset.

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All Things Distributed

AUGUST 18, 2011

Driving down the cost of Big-Data analytics. The Amazon Elastic MapReduce (EMR) team announced today the ability to seamlessly use Amazon EC2 Spot Instances with their service, significantly driving down the cost of data analytics in the cloud. However, this cannot be done without efficient, scalable data analytics.

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High Scalability

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

This is a guest post by Limor Maayan-Wainstein , a senior technical writer with 10 years of experience writing about cybersecurity, big data, cloud computing, web development, and more. When coupled with the cloud, HPC is made more affordable, accessible, efficient and shareable. What Is HPC?

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Dynatrace

JULY 6, 2022

Scripts and procedures usually focus on a particular task, such as deploying a new microservice to a Kubernetes cluster, implementing data retention policies on archived files in the cloud, or running a vulnerability scanner over code before it’s deployed. IT automation tools can achieve enterprise-wide efficiency.

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Scalegrid

MARCH 28, 2024

In this comparison of Redis vs Memcached, we strip away the complexity, focusing on each in-memory data store’s performance, scalability, and unique features. Redis is better suited for complex data models, and Memcached is better suited for high-throughput, string-based caching scenarios.

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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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Alex Podelko

DECEMBER 19, 2019

Boris has unique expertise in that area – especially in Big Data applications. Marrying Artificial Intelligence and Automation to Drive Operational Efficiencies by Priyanka Arora, Asha Somayajula, Subarna Gaine, Mastercard. How to select appropriate IT Infrastructure to support Digital Transformation by Boris Zibitsker, BEZNext.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Several pain points have made it difficult for organizations to manage their data efficiently and create actual value. Limited data availability constrains value creation. Modern IT environments — whether multicloud, on-premises, or hybrid-cloud architectures — generate exponentially increasing data volumes.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 25, 2022

Organizations adopt DevOps, where developers and operations work together in a continuous loop, so they can develop software and resolve issues efficiently before they affect users. Traditional AIOps uses machine-learning models to deliver data to dashboards using aggregation and correlation. Evolution of modern AIOps.

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Dynatrace

JULY 5, 2022

AIOps combines big data and machine learning to automate key IT operations processes, including anomaly detection and identification, event correlation, and root-cause analysis. To achieve these AIOps benefits, comprehensive AIOps tools incorporate four key stages of data processing: Collection. Aggregation.

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Scalegrid

MARCH 14, 2024

Implementing a hybrid cloud solution involves careful decision-making regarding application and data placement, migration strategies, and choosing compatible cloud service providers while ensuring seamless integration and addressing security and compliance challenges.

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The Morning Paper

MAY 14, 2019

Seer: leveraging big data to navigate the complexity of performance debugging in cloud microservices Gan et al., For the services under study, Seer has a sweet spot when trained with around 100GB of data and a 100ms sampling interval for measuring queue depths. ASPLOS’19. Seer in action.

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Highly Scalable

MARCH 1, 2012

At the same time, NoSQL data modeling is not so well studied and lacks the systematic theory found in relational databases. In this article I provide a short comparison of NoSQL system families from the data modeling point of view and digest several common modeling techniques.

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 11, 2023

As cloud and big data complexity scales beyond the ability of traditional monitoring tools to handle, next-generation cloud monitoring and observability are becoming necessities for IT teams. With agent monitoring, third-party software collects data and reports from the component that’s attached to the agent.

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Highly Scalable

MAY 1, 2012

Statistical analysis and mining of huge multi-terabyte data sets is a common task nowadays, especially in the areas like web analytics and Internet advertising. Analysis of such large data sets often requires powerful distributed data stores like Hadoop and heavy data processing with techniques like MapReduce.

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Testsigma

MAY 26, 2021

In today’s world where ‘data is the new oil’ ( as said by Clive Humby), not giving proper attention to data-driven testing is not justified. If you have an application that needs data input in some form then it will require data-driven testing. The data repository could be a CSV file, excel sheet, DB table, etc.

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Complex cloud computing environments are increasingly replacing traditional data centers. In fact, Gartner estimates that 80% of enterprises will shut down their on-premises data centers by 2025. Adding application security to development and operations workflows increases efficiency. Why is IT operations important? Automation.

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