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Data Engineers of Netflix?—?Interview with Kevin Wylie

The Netflix TechBlog

Data Engineers of Netflix?—?Interview Interview with Kevin Wylie 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. Kevin, what drew you to data engineering?

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In-Stream Big Data Processing

Highly Scalable

The shortcomings and drawbacks of batch-oriented data processing were widely recognized by the Big Data community quite a long time ago. The design of the in-stream processing engine itself was driven by the following requirements: SQL-like functionality. Strict fault-tolerance is a principal requirement for the engine.

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What is Greenplum Database? Intro to the Big Data Database

Scalegrid

Greenplum Database is a massively parallel processing (MPP) SQL database that is built and based on PostgreSQL. It can scale towards a multi-petabyte level data workload without a single issue, and it allows access to a cluster of powerful servers that will work together within a single SQL interface where you can view all of the data.

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Driving down the cost of Big-Data analytics - All Things Distributed

All Things Distributed

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. a Fast and Scalable NoSQL Database Service Designed for Internet Scale Applications.

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Expanding the Cloud – An AWS Region is coming to Hong Kong

All Things Distributed

9GAG has a small team of nine people, including three engineers to support the business, and uses AWS to service their global visitors. Then too, Internet service providers can shut down their services any time they feel threatened by the DDoS attacks.

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Expanding the Cloud with DNS - Introducing Amazon Route 53 - All.

All Things Distributed

DNS is one of the fundamental building blocks of internet applications and was high on the wish list of our customers for some time already. DNS is an absolutely critical piece of the internet infrastructure. The Domain Name System is a wonderful practical piece of technology; it is a fundamental building block of our modern internet.

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No Server Required - Jekyll & Amazon S3 - All Things Distributed

All Things Distributed

But while this blog happily runs out of S3, the process of creating and updating the content still required a server to run my Moveable Type installation and hold the database. Jekyll in written in Ruby and uses YAML for metadata management and uses the Liquid template engine to manipulate the content. Countdown to What is Next in AWS.

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