The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 7, 2024

The Machine Learning Platform (MLP) team at Netflix provides an entire ecosystem of tools around Metaflow , an open source machine learning infrastructure framework we started, to empower data scientists and machine learning practitioners to build and manage a variety of ML systems.

Systems 226

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InfoQ

DECEMBER 20, 2023

This event is designed to help senior developers navigate their immediate development challenges, focusing exclusively on the technical aspects that matter right now. InfoQ is delighted to announce a new two-day conference, InfoQ Dev Summit Boston 2024, taking place June 24-25, 2024. By Artenisa Chatziou

Development 82

Development Design Data Engineering Scalability 82

High Scalability

APRIL 14, 2020

has hours of system design content. They also do live system design discussions every week. Scrapinghub is hiring a Senior Software Engineer (Big Data/AI). this is going to be a challenging journey for any backend engineer! Learn to balance architecture trade-offs and design scalable enterprise-level software.

Education 105

Education Software Engineering Scalability Engineering 105

High Scalability

MAY 12, 2020

has hours of system design content. They also do live system design discussions every week. Scrapinghub is hiring a Senior Software Engineer (Big Data/AI). this is going to be a challenging journey for any backend engineer! Learn to balance architecture trade-offs and design scalable enterprise-level software.

Education 102

Education Software Engineering Scalability Engineering 102

High Scalability

APRIL 28, 2020

has hours of system design content. They also do live system design discussions every week. Scrapinghub is hiring a Senior Software Engineer (Big Data/AI). this is going to be a challenging journey for any backend engineer! Learn to balance architecture trade-offs and design scalable enterprise-level software.

Education 102

Education Software Engineering Scalability Engineering 102

DZone

JANUARY 13, 2023

In this tutorial, you are going to learn about QuestDB SQL extensions which prove to be very useful with time-series data. Using some sample data sets, you will learn how designated timestamps work and how to use extended SQL syntax to write queries on time-series data.

IoT 174

IoT Analytics Database Metrics 174

High Scalability

MAY 26, 2020

has hours of system design content. They also do live system design discussions every week. Scrapinghub is hiring a Senior Software Engineer (Big Data/AI). this is going to be a challenging journey for any backend engineer! Created by former senior-level AWS engineers of 15 years. Who's Hiring?

Education 100

Education AWS Software Engineering Scalability 100

High Scalability

MARCH 30, 2020

has hours of system design content. They also do live system design discussions every week. Scrapinghub is hiring a Senior Software Engineer (Big Data/AI). this is going to be a challenging journey for any backend engineer! Who's Hiring? InterviewCamp.io Try out their platform. Cool Products and Services.

Education 105

Education Software Engineering Engineering Big Data 105

High Scalability

MARCH 24, 2020

Scrapinghub is hiring a Senior Software Engineer (Big Data/AI). You will be designing and implementing distributed systems : large-scale web crawling platform, integrating Deep Learning based web data extraction components, working on queue algorithms, large datasets, creating a development platform for other company departments, etc.

Education 105

Education Software Engineering Engineering Big Data 105

High Scalability

MARCH 17, 2020

Level up on in-demand technologies and prep for your interviews on Educative.io, featuring popular courses like the bestselling Grokking the System Design Interview. Etleap is analyst-friendly , enterprise-grade ETL-as-a-service , built for Redshift and Snowflake data warehouses and S3/Glue data lakes. Try the 30-day free trial!

Education 105

Education Engineering Java Software Engineering 105

High Scalability

MARCH 3, 2020

Level up on in-demand technologies and prep for your interviews on Educative.io, featuring popular courses like the bestselling Grokking the System Design Interview. Etleap is analyst-friendly , enterprise-grade ETL-as-a-service , built for Redshift and Snowflake data warehouses and S3/Glue data lakes. Try the 30-day free trial!

Education 114

Education Games Engineering Java 114

High Scalability

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

Level up on in-demand technologies and prep for your interviews on Educative.io, featuring popular courses like the bestselling Grokking the System Design Interview. Etleap is analyst-friendly , enterprise-grade ETL-as-a-service , built for Redshift and Snowflake data warehouses and S3/Glue data lakes. Try the 30-day free trial!

Education 113

Education Games Engineering Java 113

High Scalability

FEBRUARY 9, 2020

Level up on in-demand technologies and prep for your interviews on Educative.io, featuring popular courses like the bestselling Grokking the System Design Interview. Etleap is analyst-friendly , enterprise-grade ETL-as-a-service , built for Redshift and Snowflake data warehouses and S3/Glue data lakes. Try the 30-day free trial!

Education 108

Education Games Engineering Java 108

The Agile Manager

JULY 31, 2022

There are shadow IT teams of developers or data engineers that spring up in areas like operations or marketing because the captive IT function is slow, if not outright incapable, of responding to internal customer demand. These structures don’t just ignore feedback loops, they are designed to repress feedback.

Programming 59

Programming Engineering Data Engineering Innovation 59

The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 4, 2024

One downside of the iterative design of the optimizer is that any bottleneck can block completion and cause a timeout, which we initially observed in a non-trivial number of cases. After a fixed number of iterations is exhausted, the optimizer returns the “best” configuration solution (i.e.,

Tuning 210

Tuning Efficiency Big Data Engineering 210

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

4:45pm-5:45pm NFX 202 A day in the life of a Netflix Engineer Dave Hahn , SRE Engineering Manager Abstract : Netflix is a large, ever-changing ecosystem serving millions of customers across the globe through cloud-based systems and a globally distributed CDN.

AWS 100

AWS Entertainment Open Source Benchmarking 100

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

4:45pm-5:45pm NFX 202 A day in the life of a Netflix Engineer Dave Hahn , SRE Engineering Manager Abstract : Netflix is a large, ever-changing ecosystem serving millions of customers across the globe through cloud-based systems and a globally distributed CDN.

AWS 100

AWS Entertainment Open Source Benchmarking 100

InfoQ

APRIL 15, 2024

He specifically delved into Venice DB, the NoSQL data store used for feature persistence. At the QCon London 2024 conference, Félix GV from LinkedIn discussed the AI/ML platform powering the company’s products. By Rafal Gancarz

Artificial Intelligence 96

Artificial Intelligence Big Data Data Engineering Latency 96

InfoQ

JANUARY 25, 2023

In this article, Rogerio Robetti discusses the challenges in auto-scaling stateful storage systems and proposes an opinionated design solution to automatically scale up (vertical) and scale out (horizontal) from a single node up to several nodes in a cluster with minimum configuration and interference of the operator. By Rogerio Robetti

Design 144

Design Systems Storage Data Engineering 144

InfoQ

DECEMBER 29, 2023

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.

Storage 132

Storage Scalability Database Technology 132

O'Reilly

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

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? This follows a 3% drop in 2018.

Software Architecture 134

Software Architecture DevOps Data Engineering Architecture 134

Testsigma

NOVEMBER 28, 2019

Udacity Udacity provides nanodegree programs on all automation languages like C++, Machine Learning, Data engineer, Robotics and more. They have diploma courses in Software Testing, Introduction to Python, Diploma in Design Thinking, Diploma in Python Programming. All the tracks are covered completely online.

Website 53

Website Testing Programming Automotive 53

High Scalability

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

Grokking the System Design Interview is a popular course on Educative.io (taken by 20,000+ people) that's widely considered the best System Design interview resource on the Internet. Etleap is analyst-friendly , enterprise-grade ETL-as-a-service , built for Redshift and Snowflake data warehouses and S3/Glue data lakes.

Education 22

Education Java Software Engineering Engineering 22

The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 21, 2020

We built AutoOptimize to efficiently and transparently optimize the data and metadata storage layout while maximizing their cost and performance benefits. This article will list some of the use cases of AutoOptimize, discuss the design principles that help enhance efficiency, and present the high-level architecture.

Storage 203

Storage Latency Efficiency Data Engineering 203

High Scalability

JANUARY 22, 2020

Level up on in-demand technologies and prep for your interviews on Educative.io, featuring popular courses like the bestselling Grokking the System Design Interview. Etleap is analyst-friendly , enterprise-grade ETL-as-a-service , built for Redshift and Snowflake data warehouses and S3/Glue data lakes. Try the 30-day free trial!

Education 22

Education Java Software Engineering Engineering 22

High Scalability

OCTOBER 29, 2019

Grokking the System Design Interview is a popular course on Educative.io (taken by 20,000+ people) that's widely considered the best System Design interview resource on the Internet. Etleap is analyst-friendly , enterprise-grade ETL-as-a-service , built for Redshift and Snowflake data warehouses and S3/Glue data lakes.

Education 22

Education Java Software Engineering Engineering 22

The Symphonia

JUNE 19, 2018

This type of talk is close to my heart since I strongly feel we need to do a lot of deep thinking (and subsequent knowledge sharing) of design and architecture patterns with Serverless. Over the past 9 months John’s been helping our friends at Beyondsoft with their new open-source Serverless data lake project?—?

Serverless 40

Serverless AWS DevOps Open Source 40

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

4:45pm-5:45pm NFX 202 A day in the life of a Netflix Engineer Dave Hahn , SRE Engineering Manager Abstract : Netflix is a large, ever-changing ecosystem serving millions of customers across the globe through cloud-based systems and a globally distributed CDN.

AWS 37

AWS Entertainment Benchmarking Open Source 37

High Scalability

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

Level up on in-demand technologies and prep for your interviews on Educative.io, featuring popular courses like the bestselling Grokking the System Design Interview. Etleap is analyst-friendly , enterprise-grade ETL-as-a-service , built for Redshift and Snowflake data warehouses and S3/Glue data lakes. Try the 30-day free trial!

Education 21

Education Java Software Engineering Engineering 21

The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

see “data pipeline” Intro The problem of managing scheduled workflows and their assets is as old as the use of cron daemon in early Unix operating systems. The design of a cron job is simple, you take some system command, you pick the schedule to run it on and you are done. workflow ?—?see Example: 0 0 * * MON /home/alice/backup.sh

Storage 201

Storage Data Engineering Testing Design 201

Abhishek Tiwari

JULY 12, 2018

Unfortunately, building data pipelines remains a daunting, time-consuming, and costly activity. Not everyone is operating at Netflix or Spotify scale data engineering function. Often companies underestimate the necessary effort and cost involved to build and maintain data pipelines.

Latency 63

Latency Analytics Scalability Engineering 63

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

These challenges are currently addressed in suboptimal and less cost efficient ways by individual local teams to fulfill the needs, such as Lookback: This is a generic and simple approach that data engineers use to solve the data accuracy problem. Users configure the workflow to read the data in a window (e.g.

Processing 210

Processing Big Data Efficiency Engineering 210

High Scalability

JANUARY 7, 2020

Level up on in-demand technologies and prep for your interviews on Educative.io, featuring popular courses like the bestselling Grokking the System Design Interview. Etleap is analyst-friendly , enterprise-grade ETL-as-a-service , built for Redshift and Snowflake data warehouses and S3/Glue data lakes. Try the 30-day free trial!

Education 21

Education Java Software Engineering Engineering 21

High Scalability

DECEMBER 12, 2019

Level up on in-demand technologies and prep for your interviews on Educative.io, featuring popular courses like the bestselling Grokking the System Design Interview. Etleap is analyst-friendly , enterprise-grade ETL-as-a-service , built for Redshift and Snowflake data warehouses and S3/Glue data lakes. Try the 30-day free trial!

Education 21

Education Java Software Engineering Engineering 21

Abhishek Tiwari

APRIL 14, 2018

First and foremost, modeling ETL process helps in designing an efficient, robust and evolvable ETL. Although these ETL modeling techniques are designed for traditional relational databases (i.e. source dependent), they can be applied to model the modern ETL workflow and data pipelines. Query-based Data Warehousing Tool ??.

Best Practices 40

Best Practices Database Design Efficiency 40

InfoQ

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

HubSpot adopted routing messages over multiple Kafka topics (called swimlanes) for the same producer to avoid the build-up in the consumer group lag and prioritize the processing of real-time traffic.

Processing 75

Processing Traffic Data Engineering Scalability 75

InfoQ

JULY 3, 2023

LinkedIn introduced Couchbase as a centralized caching tier for scaling member profile reads to handle increasing traffic that has outgrown their existing database cluster. The new solution achieved over 99% hit rate, helped reduce tail latencies by more than 60% and costs by 10% annually. By Rafal Gancarz

Cache 81

Cache Latency Traffic Database 81