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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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Ready-to-go sample data pipelines with Dataflow

The Netflix TechBlog

Dataflow Dataflow is a command line utility built to improve experience and to streamline the data pipeline development at Netflix. The most commonly used one is dataflow project , which helps folks in managing their data pipeline repositories through creation, testing, deployment and few other activities. test_sparksql_write.py

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Building and Scaling Data Lineage at Netflix to Improve Data Infrastructure Reliability, and…

The Netflix TechBlog

Finally, imagine yourself in the role of a data platform reliability engineer tasked with providing advanced lead time to data pipeline (ETL) owners by proactively identifying issues upstream to their ETL jobs. Design a flexible data model ? —?Represent Enable seamless integration?—?

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Optimizing data warehouse storage

The Netflix TechBlog

At this scale, we can gain a significant amount of performance and cost benefits by optimizing the storage layout (records, objects, partitions) as the data lands into our warehouse. 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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5 key areas for tech leaders to watch in 2020

O'Reilly

This year’s growth in Python usage was buoyed by its increasing popularity among data scientists and machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI) engineers. The shift to cloud native design is transforming both software architecture and infrastructure and operations. Coincidence? to be wary of. Figure 1 (above).

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Zendesk Moves from DynamoDB to MySQL and S3 to Save over 80% in Costs

InfoQ

Zendesk reduced its data storage costs by over 80% by migrating from DynamoDB to a tiered storage solution using MySQL and S3. The company considered different storage technologies and decided to combine the relational database and the object store to strike a balance between querybility and scalability while keeping the costs down.

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Orchestrating Data/ML Workflows at Scale With Netflix Maestro

The Netflix TechBlog

increasing at > 100% a year, the need for a scalable data workflow orchestrator has become paramount for Netflix’s business needs. After perusing the current landscape of workflow orchestrators, we decided to develop a next generation system that can scale horizontally to spread the jobs across the cluster consisting of 100’s of nodes.

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