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

DECEMBER 21, 2020

Some of the optimizations are prerequisites for a high-performance data warehouse. Sometimes Data Engineers write downstream ETLs on ingested data to optimize the data/metadata layouts to make other ETL processes cheaper and faster. Orient: Gather tuning parameters for a particular table that changed.

Storage 203

Storage Latency Efficiency Data Engineering 203

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Whether in analyzing A/B tests, optimizing studio production, training algorithms, investing in content acquisition, detecting security breaches, or optimizing payments, well structured and accurate data is foundational. Users configure the workflow to read the data in a window (e.g. data arrives too late to be useful).

Processing 210

Processing Big Data Efficiency Engineering 210

The Netflix TechBlog

JULY 21, 2022

Since memory management is not something one usually associates with classification problems, this blog focuses on formulating the problem as an ML problem and the data engineering that goes along with it. Some nuances while creating this dataset come from the on-field domain knowledge of our engineers.

Big Data 179

Big Data Cache Engineering Data Engineering 179