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What is IT automation?

Dynatrace

And what are the best strategies to reduce manual labor so your team can focus on more mission-critical issues? Expect to spend time fine-tuning automation scripts as you find the right balance between automated and manual processing. Big data automation tools. Creating a sound IT automation strategy.

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Migrating Critical Traffic At Scale with No Downtime?—?Part 1

The Netflix TechBlog

Migrating Critical Traffic At Scale with No Downtime — Part 1 Shyam Gala , Javier Fernandez-Ivern , Anup Rokkam Pratap , Devang Shah Hundreds of millions of customers tune into Netflix every day, expecting an uninterrupted and immersive streaming experience. This approach has a handful of benefits.

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Formulating ‘Out of Memory Kill’ Prediction on the Netflix App as a Machine Learning Problem

The Netflix TechBlog

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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Data Movement in Netflix Studio via Data Mesh

The Netflix TechBlog

However, it is paramount that we validate the complete set of identifiers such as a list of movie ids across producers and consumers for higher overall confidence in the data transport layer of choice. This strategy has increased the Studio Tech Solutions team performance and stability. Please stay tuned! Endnotes ¹ Inmon, Bill.

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Incremental Processing using Netflix Maestro and Apache Iceberg

The Netflix TechBlog

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.

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Optimizing data warehouse storage

The Netflix TechBlog

Orient: Gather tuning parameters for a particular table that changed. AutoAnalyze In short, AutoAnalyze finds the best tuning/configuration parameters for a table. We use 2 different packing algorithms to achieve this: Knuth/Plass line breaking algorithm We use this strategy when the sort order among files is important.

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Structural Evolutions in Data

O'Reilly

Each time, the underlying implementation changed a bit while still staying true to the larger phenomenon of “Analyzing Data for Fun and Profit.” ” They weren’t quite sure what this “data” substance was, but they’d convinced themselves that they had tons of it that they could monetize.