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Data Engineers of Netflix?—?Interview with Kevin Wylie

The Netflix TechBlog

His favorite TV shows: Ozark, Breaking Bad, Black Mirror, Barry, and Chernobyl Since I joined Netflix back in 2011, my favorite project has been designing and building the first version of our entertainment knowledge graph. Fast forward 10 years, and Netflix is now the leading streaming entertainment service?—?serving

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Expanding the Cloud – An AWS Region is coming to Hong Kong

All Things Distributed

The new region will give Hong Kong-based businesses, government organizations, non-profits, and global companies with customers in Hong Kong, the ability to leverage AWS technologies from data centers in Hong Kong. The new AWS Asia Pacific (Hong Kong) Region will have three Availability Zones and be ready for customers for use in 2018.

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DBaaS vs Self-Managed Cloud Databases

Scalegrid

The choice of self-managed cloud databases vs DBaaS is a common debate among those who are looking for the best option that will cater to their particular needs. Database as a Service (DBaaS) and managed databases offer distinct advantages along with certain challenges.

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A survival strategy for the digital transformation

All Things Distributed

Companies that used to be dominant but stare at all the changes around them for too long in a state of paralysis can quickly end up in a struggle to survive – look no further than the entertainment and music industry where streaming services have eaten a significant piece of the cake of the hard-copy providers.

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Expanding the Cloud - Cluster Compute Instances for Amazon EC2.

All Things Distributed

During my academic career, I spent many years working on HPC technologies such as user-level networking interfaces, large scale high-speed interconnects, HPC software stacks, etc. a Fast and Scalable NoSQL Database Service Designed for Internet Scale Applications. Job Openings in AWS - Senior Leader in Database Services.

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Data Mesh?—?A Data Movement and Processing Platform @ Netflix

The Netflix TechBlog

A Data Movement and Processing Platform @ Netflix By Bo Lei , Guilherme Pires , James Shao , Kasturi Chatterjee , Sujay Jain , Vlad Sydorenko Background Realtime processing technologies (A.K.A stream processing) is one of the key factors that enable Netflix to maintain its leading position in the competition of entertaining our users.

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Growth Engineering at Netflix- Creating a Scalable Offers Platform

The Netflix TechBlog

Retrieve eligible SKUs from SKU Platform The SKU Platform consists of a rules engine, a database, and application logic. The database contains the plans, prices and offers. How, when, and where people want to be entertained continues to evolve. The world is constantly changing. Device capabilities continue to improve.