The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 4, 2024

Operational automation–including but not limited to, auto diagnosis, auto remediation, auto configuration, auto tuning, auto scaling, auto debugging, and auto testing–is key to the success of modern data platforms. the retry success probability) and compute cost efficiency (i.e., Multi-objective optimizations.

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

By Abhinaya Shetty , Bharath Mummadisetty In the inaugural blog post of this series, we introduced you to the state of our pipelines before Psyberg and the challenges with incremental processing that led us to create the Psyberg framework within Netflix’s Membership and Finance data engineering team.

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High Scalability

JUNE 15, 2020

This is a guest post by Eunice Do , Data Engineer at TripleLift , a technology company leading the next generation of programmatic advertising. The system is the data pipeline at TripleLift. TripleLift is an adtech company, and like most companies in this industry, we deal with high volumes of data on a daily basis.

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

By focusing solely on updates and avoiding reprocessing of data based on a fixed lookback window, both Stateless and Stateful Data Processing maintain a minimal change footprint. This approach ensures data processing is both efficient and accurate.

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The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 7, 2024

Without these integrations, projects would be stuck at the prototyping stage, or they would have to be maintained as outliers outside the systems maintained by our engineering teams, incurring unsustainable operational overhead. Importantly, all the use cases were engineered by practitioners themselves.

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Dynatrace

JULY 6, 2022

As organizations continue to adopt multicloud strategies, the complexity of these environments grows, increasing the need to automate cloud engineering operations to ensure organizations can enforce their policies and architecture principles. This requires significant data engineering efforts, as well as work to build machine-learning models.

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The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 5, 2019

Netflix’s engineering culture is predicated on Freedom & Responsibility, the idea that everyone (and every team) at Netflix is entrusted with a core responsibility and they are free to operate with freedom to satisfy their mission. In the Efficiency space, our data teams focus on transparency and optimization.

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The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 2, 2021

At Netflix, our data scientists span many areas of technical specialization, including experimentation, causal inference, machine learning, NLP, modeling, and optimization. Together with data analytics and data engineering, we comprise the larger, centralized Data Science and Engineering group.

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The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

—?and what the role entails by Julie Beckley & Chris Pham This Q&A provides insights into the diverse set of skills, projects, and culture within Data Science and Engineering (DSE) at Netflix through the eyes of two team members: Chris Pham and Julie Beckley. Photo from a team curling offsite?—?There’s There’s us to the right!

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High Scalability

MARCH 3, 2020

Sisu Data is looking for machine learning engineers who are eager to deliver their features end-to-end, from Jupyter notebook to production, and provide actionable insights to businesses based on their first-party, streaming, and structured relational data. How to screen candidates efficiently, effectively, and without bias.

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High Scalability

MARCH 17, 2020

Sisu Data is looking for machine learning engineers who are eager to deliver their features end-to-end, from Jupyter notebook to production, and provide actionable insights to businesses based on their first-party, streaming, and structured relational data. How to screen candidates efficiently, effectively, and without bias.

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High Scalability

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

Sisu Data is looking for machine learning engineers who are eager to deliver their features end-to-end, from Jupyter notebook to production, and provide actionable insights to businesses based on their first-party, streaming, and structured relational data. How to screen candidates efficiently, effectively, and without bias.

Education 113

Education Games Engineering Java 113

High Scalability

APRIL 14, 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 Scalability Engineering 105

High Scalability

MAY 12, 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 102

Education Software Engineering Scalability Engineering 102

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

APRIL 28, 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 102

Education Software Engineering Scalability Engineering 102

High Scalability

FEBRUARY 9, 2020

Sisu Data is looking for machine learning engineers who are eager to deliver their features end-to-end, from Jupyter notebook to production, and provide actionable insights to businesses based on their first-party, streaming, and structured relational data. How to screen candidates efficiently, effectively, and without bias.

Education 108

Education Games Engineering Java 108

High Scalability

MAY 26, 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 100

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High Scalability

MARCH 30, 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

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

by Shefali Vyas Dalal AWS re:Invent is a couple weeks away and our engineers & leaders are thrilled to be in attendance yet again this year! Technology advancements in content creation and consumption have also increased its data footprint. We’ve compiled our speaking events below so you know what we’ve been working on.

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AWS Entertainment Open Source Benchmarking 100

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

by Shefali Vyas Dalal AWS re:Invent is a couple weeks away and our engineers & leaders are thrilled to be in attendance yet again this year! Technology advancements in content creation and consumption have also increased its data footprint. We’ve compiled our speaking events below so you know what we’ve been working on.

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AWS Entertainment Open Source Benchmarking 100

InfoQ

APRIL 7, 2021

Recently, Google announced A2 Virtual Machines (VMs)' general availability based on the NVIDIA Ampere A100 Tensor Core GPUs in Compute Engine. By Steef-Jan Wiggers.

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Virtualization Google Availability Engineering 55

Adrian Cockcroft

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

SUS206 Sustainability and AWS silicon  — Kamran Khan AWS Senior Product Manager Inferential/Trainium/FPGA, David Chaiken Pinterest Chief Architect, and Paul Mazurkiewicz AWS Senior Principal Engineer. Excellent talk on the NOAA programs to share data and build communities around it.

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AWS Energy Architecture Programming 64

Abhishek Tiwari

JULY 12, 2018

In recent times, in order to gain valuable insights or to develop the data-driven products companies such as Netflix, Spotify, Uber, AirBnB have built internal data pipelines. If built correctly, data pipelines can offer strategic advantages to the business. It can be used to power new analytics, insight, and product features.

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Latency Analytics Scalability Engineering 63

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

It also improves the engineering productivity by simplifying the existing pipelines and unlocking the new patterns. We will show how we are building a clean and efficient incremental processing solution (IPS) by using Netflix Maestro and Apache Iceberg. Users configure the workflow to read the data in a window (e.g.

Processing 210

Processing Big Data Efficiency Engineering 210

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

by Shefali Vyas Dalal AWS re:Invent is a couple weeks away and our engineers & leaders are thrilled to be in attendance yet again this year! Technology advancements in content creation and consumption have also increased its data footprint. Please stop by our “Living Room” for an opportunity to connect or reconnect with Netflixers.

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AWS Entertainment Open Source Benchmarking 37

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.

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Storage Latency Efficiency Data Engineering 203

The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 25, 2019

Building and Scaling Data Lineage at Netflix to Improve Data Infrastructure Reliability, and Efficiency By: Di Lin , Girish Lingappa , Jitender Aswani Imagine yourself in the role of a data-inspired decision maker staring at a metric on a dashboard about to make a critical business decision but pausing to ask a question?—?“Can

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Infrastructure Big Data Transportation Architecture 219

Abhishek Tiwari

APRIL 14, 2018

First and foremost, modeling ETL process helps in designing an efficient, robust and evolvable ETL. Second, modeling ETL workflow plays an important role to optimize the data warehousing. Modeling of ETL workflow is important for several reasons.

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Best Practices Database Design Efficiency 40

Abhishek Tiwari

JULY 7, 2023

Airflow provides rich scheduling and execution semantics enabling data engineers to easily define complex pipelines, running at regular intervals. Workflow platforms have emerged as a crucial component for these companies, enabling them to orchestrate complex tasks, automate processes, and ensure efficient collaboration.

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Logistics Transportation Scalability Data Engineering 52

The Netflix TechBlog

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Usability Netflix is a data-driven company, where key decisions are driven by data insights, from the pixel color used on the landing page to the renewal of a TV-series. Data scientists, engineers, non-engineers, and even content producers all run their data pipelines to get the necessary insights.

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Java Scalability Traffic Architecture 202

Abhishek Tiwari

DECEMBER 27, 2017

A unified data management (UDM) system combines the best of data warehouses, data lakes, and streaming without expensive and error-prone ETL. It offers reliability and performance of a data warehouse, real-time and low-latency characteristics of a streaming system, and scale and cost-efficiency of a data lake.

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Big Data Artificial Intelligence Storage Hardware 49

The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

However, the default reports only provide a summary view of the data with some powerful but limited filtering options. Our data scientists often want to apply their knowledge of the business and statistics to fully understand the outcome of an experiment. Our data scientists faced numerous challenges in our previous infrastructure.

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Metrics Architecture Infrastructure Innovation 215

The Netflix TechBlog

JANUARY 11, 2022

Here we describe the role of Experimentation and A/B testing within the larger Data Science and Engineering organization at Netflix, including how our platform investments support running tests at scale while enabling innovation. Curious to learn more about other Data Science and Engineering functions at Netflix?

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