The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 1, 2021

Data Engineers of Netflix?—?Interview Interview with Dhevi Rajendran Dhevi Rajendran This post is part of our “Data Engineers of Netflix” interview series, where our very own data engineers talk about their journeys to Data Engineering @ Netflix.

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The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 1, 2021

Data Engineers of Netflix?—?Interview Interview with Samuel Setegne Samuel Setegne This post is part of our “Data Engineers of Netflix” interview series, where our very own data engineers talk about their journeys to Data Engineering @ Netflix. What drew you to Netflix?

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DZone

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

It's midnight in the dim and cluttered office of The New York Times, currently serving as the "situation room." A powerful surge of traffic is inevitable. During every major election, the wave would crest and crash against our overwhelmed systems before receding, allowing us to assess the damage.

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DZone

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

In software engineering, we've learned that building robust and stable applications has a direct correlation with overall organization performance. The data community is striving to incorporate the core concepts of engineering rigor found in software communities but still has further to go.

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DZone

AUGUST 16, 2023

From a data engineer's point of view, financial risk management is a series of data analysis activities on financial data. The financial sector imposes its unique requirements on data engineering. Before they adopted an OLAP engine, they were using Kettle to collect data.

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DZone

DECEMBER 27, 2023

Welcome to the first post in our exciting series on mastering offline data pipeline's best practices, focusing on the potent combination of Apache Airflow and data processing engines like Hive and Spark. Working together, they form the backbone of many modern data engineering solutions.

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DZone

MARCH 29, 2023

This article discusses the challenges and best practices of data migration when transferring on-premise data to the cloud. The article will also explore the role of data engineering in ensuring successful data transfer and integration and different approaches to data migration.

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DZone

JANUARY 31, 2024

Key Components in SIEM Log Collection: SEIM systems collect and aggregate log data from Various sources across an organization’s network, including servers, endpoints, firewalls, applications, and other devices. Problem Statement In Data Engineering , the data/log collection is a challenging task for high-volume sources.

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DZone

JANUARY 27, 2023

Data lineage, an automated visualization of the relationships for how data flows across tables and other data assets, is a must-have in the data engineering toolbox.

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Uber Engineering

AUGUST 14, 2019

Once identified, … The post Less is More: Engineering Data Warehouse Efficiency with Minimalist Design appeared first on Uber Engineering Blog. In our experience, optimizing for operational efficiency requires answering one key question: for which tables does the maintenance cost supersede utility?

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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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Percona Community

OCTOBER 14, 2020

next day) Abstract Not so long ago, operations specialists worked much like today’s data engineers do: with specialized skills, they were the people who kept sites running, who responded to emergencies, and who—unfortunately—spent much of their time dealing with incidents and other “fires. London 5:30 p.m. •

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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

MARCH 4, 2024

The rule-based classifier classifies job errors based on a set of predefined rules and provides insights for schedulers to decide whether to retry the job and for engineers to diagnose and remediate the job failure. Rule Execution Engine is responsible for matching the collected logs against a set of predefined rules.

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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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Simform

JANUARY 8, 2023

Data ingestion is the foremost layer in a data engineering pipeline, acting as a vital pillar in the overall analytics architecture. Thus, it is essential to implement data ingestion just right. Here is everything you need to know to take the first step toward a flawless data pipeline.

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DZone

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

While increasing both the precision and the recall of our secrets detection engine, we felt the need to keep a close eye on speed. So it wasn’t a surprise to find that our engine had the same problem: more power, less speed. In a gearbox, if you want to increase torque, you need to decrease speed.

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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. All these micro-services are currently operated in AWS cloud infrastructure.

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The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

This helps overwrite data only when required and minimizes unnecessary reprocessing. As seen above, by chaining these Psyberg workflows, we could automate the catchup for late-arriving data from hours 2 and 6. The Data Engineer does not need to perform any manual intervention in this case and can thus focus on more important things!

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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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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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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. Apply here. Try the 30-day free trial!

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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. Apply here. Try the 30-day free trial!

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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. Apply here. Try the 30-day free trial!

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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. Apply here. Try the 30-day free trial!

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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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The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 18, 2020

I wasn’t even entirely sure what the right role fit would be and originally applied for a different position, before being redirected to the Analytics Engineer role. Working in Studio Data Science & Engineering (“Studio DSE”) was basically a dream come true. As a business intelligence analyst, I gained data science skills.

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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. IT shadows appear in a lot of different forms.

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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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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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Percona Community

OCTOBER 3, 2018

For Percona Live Europe, I’ll be presenting the tutorial Elasticsearch 101 alongside my colleagues and fellow presenters from ObjectRocket Alex Cercel, DBA, and Mihai Aldoiu, Data Engineer. Here’s a brief overview of our tutorial.

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