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What is IT automation?

Dynatrace

Expect to spend time fine-tuning automation scripts as you find the right balance between automated and manual processing. This requires significant data engineering efforts, as well as work to build machine-learning models. By tuning workflows, you can increase their efficiency and effectiveness.

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Friends don't let friends build data pipelines

Abhishek Tiwari

Lastly, we will talk about the internal platform and product divide – one key reason why data pipeline initiatives typically fail – and why it is better working backward from the product. Unfortunately, building data pipelines remains a daunting, time-consuming, and costly activity. A data pipeline is a software which runs on hardware.

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Incremental Processing using Netflix Maestro and Apache Iceberg

The Netflix TechBlog

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.

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Formulating ‘Out of Memory Kill’ Prediction on the Netflix App as a Machine Learning Problem

The Netflix TechBlog

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. for us at Netflix, this is a combination of the device type, app session ID and software development kit version (SDK version).

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Building and Scaling Data Lineage at Netflix to Improve Data Infrastructure Reliability, and…

The Netflix TechBlog

Building and Scaling Data Lineage at Netflix to Improve Data Infrastructure Reliability, and Efficiency By: Di Lin , Girish Lingappa , Jitender Aswani Imagine yourself in the role of a data-inspired decision maker staring at a metric on a dashboard about to make a critical business decision but pausing to ask a question?—?“Can

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Orchestrating Data/ML Workflows at Scale With Netflix Maestro

The Netflix TechBlog

It is a general-purpose workflow orchestrator that provides a fully managed workflow-as-a-service (WAAS) to the data platform at Netflix. It serves thousands of users, including data scientists, data engineers, machine learning engineers, software engineers, content producers, and business analysts, for various use cases.

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Organise your engineering teams around the work by reteaming

Abhishek Tiwari

Warehouse engineering squad - managing software services related inventory, stocktake, dispatch, allocation, transfer, robotics, etc. Customer experience engineering squad - focus on end-to-end customer life-cycle, marketing, targeting, personalisation, loyalty, etc. Secondly, fine-tune team composition based on work.