The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 4, 2024

Operational automation–including but not limited to, auto diagnosis, auto remediation, auto configuration, auto tuning, auto scaling, auto debugging, and auto testing–is key to the success of modern data platforms. We have also noted a great potential for further improvement by model tuning (see the section of Rollout in Production).

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Dynatrace

JULY 6, 2022

While automating IT practices can save administrators a lot of time, without AIOps, the system is only as intelligent as the humans who program it. Expect to spend time fine-tuning automation scripts as you find the right balance between automated and manual processing. Monitoring automation is ongoing. Batch process automation.

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Artificial Intelligence Tuning Strategy Big Data 188

The Netflix TechBlog

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Data Load Type : The ETL can either load the missed/new data specifically or reload the entire specified range. This helps overwrite data only when required and minimizes unnecessary reprocessing. As seen above, by chaining these Psyberg workflows, we could automate the catchup for late-arriving data from hours 2 and 6.

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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.

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The Netflix TechBlog

DECEMBER 21, 2020

Use cases We found several use cases where a system like AutoOptimize can bring tons of value. 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.

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Storage Latency Efficiency Data Engineering 203

The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

The Engineer enjoys making data available by piping it in from new sources in optimal ways, building robust data models, prototyping systems, and doing project-specific engineering.

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Analytics Engineering Data Engineering Tuning 240

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. Labeling the data?

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Big Data Cache Engineering Data Engineering 179