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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. A lot of my learning and training was self-guided until 2016, when a manager at my last company took a chance on me and helped me make the rare transfer from a role in HR to Data Science.

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Expanding the Cloud: Introducing the AWS Asia Pacific (Seoul) Region

All Things Distributed

A region in South Korea has been highly requested by companies around the world who want to take full advantage of Korea’s world-leading Internet connectivity and provide their customers with quick, low-latency access to websites, mobile applications, games, SaaS applications, and more.

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How social forces could drive blockchain demand

O'Reilly

He designed this new platform to be permission-less and free, an open space for creativity, innovation, and free expression that transcended geographic and cultural boundaries. Our world is now 30 years into its internet-driven, digital-centric life. Our digital lives generate heaps of data that propagate beyond our intent and control.

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Expanding the AWS Cloud: Introducing the AWS Europe (London) Region

All Things Distributed

UK companies are using AWS to innovate across diverse industries, such as energy, manufacturing, medicaments, retail, media, and financial services and the UK is home to some of the world's most forward-thinking businesses. Take Peterborough City Council as an example.

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Python at Netflix

The Netflix TechBlog

Content is placed on the network of servers in the Open Connect CDN as close to the end user as possible, improving the streaming experience for our customers and reducing costs for both Netflix and our Internet Service Provider (ISP) partners. We also use Python to detect sensitive data using Lanius.

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The Amazon.com 2010 Shareholder Letter Focusses on Technology.

All Things Distributed

The diversity of products demands that we employ modern regression techniques like trained random forests of decision trees to flexibly incorporate thousands of product attributes at rank time. Technology infuses all of our teams, all of our processes, our decision-making, and our approach to innovation in each of our businesses.

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Bringing the Magic of Amazon AI and Alexa to Apps on AWS.

All Things Distributed

Today, I want to focus on helping app developers who have chosen to develop their apps on AWS and have in the past developed some of the seminal apps of our times on AWS, such as Netflix, AirBnB, or Pinterest or created internet connected devices powered by AWS such as Alexa and Dropcam.

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