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. In a gearbox, if you want to increase torque, you need to decrease speed. So it wasn’t a surprise to find that our engine had the same problem: more power, less speed.

Processing 243

Processing Benchmarking Speed Engineering 243

The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

You can look at ABlaze (our centralized A/B testing platform) and take a quick look at how it’s performing. Note that the new encodes perform well in the lower quantiles but worse in the higher ones You notice that the first new encode (Cell 2?—?Encode This enables us to optimize their experience at speed.

Metrics 215

Metrics Architecture Infrastructure Innovation 215

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

These challenges are currently addressed in suboptimal and less cost efficient ways by individual local teams to fulfill the needs, such as Lookback: This is a generic and simple approach that data engineers use to solve the data accuracy problem. Users configure the workflow to read the data in a window (e.g.

Processing 210

Processing Big Data Efficiency Engineering 210

The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 5, 2019

As a micro-service owner, a Netflix engineer is responsible for its innovation as well as its operation, which includes making sure the service is reliable, secure, efficient and performant. In the Performance space, our data teams currently focus on the quality of experience on Netflix-enabled devices.

Infrastructure 182

Infrastructure Cloud Scalability AWS 182

The Netflix TechBlog

MAY 26, 2020

Spark could look up and retrieve the data in the s3 files that the Mouthful represented. This intermediate step of persisting Mouthfuls allowed us to easily “eat” through S3 event SQS messages at great speed, converting them to far fewer Mouthful SQS Messages which would each be consumed by a single Spark app instance.

Network 150

Network Tuning AWS Big Data 150

All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

The data infrastructure to collect, store, and process data is geared primarily towards developers and IT professionals whereas insights need to be derived by not just technical professionals but also non-technical business users. Auto-discovery : One of the challenges with BI is discovering and accessing the data.

Analytics 152

Analytics Availability Media Social Media 152

Abhishek Tiwari

DECEMBER 27, 2017

Unified data management architecture. A unified data management (UDM) system combines the best of data warehouses, data lakes, and streaming without expensive and error-prone ETL. In contrast, Alluxio a middleware for data access - think Alluxio storage layer as fast cache.

Big Data 49

Big Data Artificial Intelligence Storage Hardware 49