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 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

Julie] Chris and I have the same primary stakeholders (or engineering team that we support): Encoding Technologies. They are continuously innovating compression algorithms to efficiently send high quality audio and video files to our customers over the internet. Tell me about some of the exciting projects you’re a part of.

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Adrian Cockcroft

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

I asked around and heard that they are still working on it, but the AWS hiring freeze means that they don’t have the headcount they expected and are making slow progress on an API, more detailed metrics, and scope 3, which everyone is waiting for. Portfolio is currently reducing Amazons carbon footprint by 19 Million Metric Tons of CO2e.

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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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The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

ABlaze: The standard view of analyses in the XP UI Suppose you’re running a new video encoding test and theorize that the two new encodes should reduce play delay, a metric describing how long it takes for a video to play after you press the start button. Our data scientists faced numerous challenges in our previous infrastructure.

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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 about what it’s like to be a Data Engineer at Netflix?

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