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What is IT automation?

Dynatrace

And what are the best strategies to reduce manual labor so your team can focus on more mission-critical issues? 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.

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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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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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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. Orient: Gather tuning parameters for a particular table that changed.

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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. Some nuances while creating this dataset come from the on-field domain knowledge of our engineers.

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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.