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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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Supporting Diverse ML Systems at Netflix

The Netflix TechBlog

Data: Fast Data Our main data lake is hosted on S3, organized as Apache Iceberg tables. For ETL and other heavy lifting of data, we mainly rely on Apache Spark. In addition to Spark, we want to support last-mile data processing in Python, addressing use cases such as feature transformations, batch inference, and training.

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Netflix at AWS re:Invent 2019

The Netflix TechBlog

Netflix shares how Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling allows its infrastructure to automatically adapt to changing traffic patterns in order to keep its audience entertained and its costs on target. Wednesday?—?December The talk also includes examples of using these tools in the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) cloud.

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Netflix at AWS re:Invent 2019

The Netflix TechBlog

Netflix shares how Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling allows its infrastructure to automatically adapt to changing traffic patterns in order to keep its audience entertained and its costs on target. Wednesday?—?December The talk also includes examples of using these tools in the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) cloud.

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A Day in the Life of an Experimentation and Causal Inference Scientist @ Netflix

The Netflix TechBlog

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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Netflix at AWS re:Invent 2019

The Netflix TechBlog

Netflix shares how Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling allows its infrastructure to automatically adapt to changing traffic patterns in order to keep its audience entertained and its costs on target. Wednesday?—?December The talk also includes examples of using these tools in the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) cloud.

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Spice up your Analytics: Amazon QuickSight Now Generally Available in N. Virginia, Oregon, and Ireland.

All Things Distributed

Previously, I wrote about Amazon QuickSight , a new service targeted at business users that aims to simplify the process of deriving insights from a wide variety of data sources quickly, easily, and at a low cost. Put simply, data is not always readily available and accessible to organizational end users.

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