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Friends don't let friends build data pipelines

Abhishek Tiwari

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.

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Scaling Appsec at Netflix (Part 2)

The Netflix TechBlog

Our goal is to manage security risks to Netflix via clear, opinionated security guidance, and by providing risk context to Netflix engineering teams to make pragmatic risk decisions at scale. Security Strategy and Roadmap, Threat Model, Deliverable Tracking, Residual Risk Criteria, etc).

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Analytics at Netflix: Who we are and what we do

The Netflix TechBlog

But there is far less agreement on what that term “data analytics” actually means?—?or Even within Netflix, we have many groups that do some form of data analysis, including business strategy and consumer insights. or what to call the people responsible for the work.

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Incremental Processing using Netflix Maestro and Apache Iceberg

The Netflix TechBlog

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).

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Optimizing data warehouse storage

The Netflix TechBlog

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. Other Components Iceberg We use Apache Iceberg as the table format.

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Expanding the Cloud: Introducing Amazon QuickSight

All Things Distributed

Today, I am excited to share with you a brand new service called Amazon QuickSight that aims to simplify the process of deriving insights from a wide variety of data sources in a fast and affordable manner. QuickSight is a fast, cloud native, scalable, business intelligence service for the 1/10th the cost of old-guard BI solutions.

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