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From Facts & Metrics to Media Machine Learning: Evolving the Data Engineering Function at Netflix

Netflix Technology Blog — Thu, 21 Aug 2025 17:39:40 +0000

By Dao Mi, Pablo Delgado, Ryan Berti, Amanuel Kahsay, Obi-Ike Nwoke, Christopher Thrailkill, and Patricio GarzaAt Netflix, data engineering has always been a critical function to enable the business’s ability to understand content, power recommendation...

A Recap of the Data Engineering Open Forum at Netflix

Netflix Technology Blog — Thu, 20 Jun 2024 15:01:27 +0000

A summary of sessions at the first Data Engineering Open Forum at Netflix on April 18th, 2024The Data Engineering Open Forum at Netflix on April 18th, 2024.At Netflix, we aspire to entertain the world, and our data engineering teams play a crucial role...

Round 2: A Survey of Causal Inference Applications at Netflix

Netflix Technology Blog — Thu, 06 Jun 2024 20:10:54 +0000

At Netflix, we want to ensure that every current and future member finds content that thrills them today and excites them to come back for more. Causal inference is an essential part of the value that Data Science and Engineering adds towards this miss...

Querying a Decade of Drive Stats Data

Pat Patterson — Mon, 07 Nov 2022 17:23:44 +0000

As we've gathered more and more Drive Stats data, we found ourselves needing a process to streamline. Check out the process we built, and let us know if it works for your large datasets.

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Streaming Media with Backblaze B2: A Data Storage Guide

Pat Patterson — Wed, 27 Jul 2022 15:57:54 +0000

Learn how to turn your Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage into a streaming media hub. Find essential tools and tips for hosting audio and video files efficiently.

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A Survey of Causal Inference Applications at Netflix

Netflix Technology Blog — Sat, 21 May 2022 15:02:49 +0000

At Netflix, we want to entertain the world through creating engaging content and helping members discover the titles they will love. Key to that is understanding causal effects that connect changes we make in the product to indicators of member joy.To ...

Data Engineers of Netflix — Interview with Pallavi Phadnis

Netflix Technology Blog — Thu, 28 Oct 2021 17:30:19 +0000

Data Engineers of Netflix — Interview with Pallavi PhadnisThis post is part of our “Data Engineers of Netflix” series, where our very own data engineers talk about their journeys to Data Engineering @ Netflix.Pallavi Phadnis is a Senior Software Engine...

The Show Must Go On: Securing Netflix Studios At Scale

Netflix Technology Blog — Mon, 13 Sep 2021 17:28:01 +0000

Written by Jose Fernandez, Arthur Gonigberg, Julia Knecht, and Patrick ThomasIn 2017, Netflix Studios was hitting an inflection point from a period of merely rapid growth to the sort of explosive growth that throws “how do we scale?” into every convers...

Growth Engineering at Netflix- Creating a Scalable Offers Platform

Netflix Technology Blog — Tue, 09 Feb 2021 17:27:17 +0000

by Eric EiswerthBackgroundNetflix has been offering streaming video-on-demand (SVOD) for over 10 years. Throughout that time we’ve primarily relied on 3 plans (Basic, Standard, & Premium), combined with the 30-day free trial to drive global custome...

За блогърстването и още нещо

Yovko Lambrev — Wed, 25 Nov 2020 12:30:00 +0000

Този текст е провокиран от публикация на Иван, който обзет от носталгия по доброто, старо блогърстване ме сръчка да споделя и аз някакви мисли по темата. А вероятно и да имам повод напиша нещо тук. Oт последният ми пост са минали три месеца. Вероятно до края на тази особена 2020

Varta Portable PowerBank Slim

Yovko Lambrev — Wed, 26 Aug 2020 09:49:00 +0000

Като човек, който използва много технологични джаджи, непрекъснато имам нужда и от преносима батерия, от която да мога да заредя телефон или таблет, в случай че съм в движение, навън, работя извън офис или просто съм забравил да заредя някое устройство. Най-критичното нещо е смартфонът ми, понеже навън го използвам

Some PSAs for NUC owners

esr — Sun, 05 Jul 2020 01:18:56 +0000

I’ve written before, in Contemplating the Cute Brick, that I’m a big fan of Intel’s NUC line of small-form-factor computers. Over the last week I’ve been having some unpleasant learning experiences around them. I’m still a fan, but I’m shipping this post where the search engines can see it in support of future NUC owners… Continue reading

SSDs: A gift and a curse

Laurie Denness — Tue, 02 Jun 2015 15:05:38 +0000

TweetArtur Bergman, founder of a CDN exclusively powered by super fast SSDs, has made many compelling cases over the years to use them. He was definitely ahead of the curve here, but he’s right. Nowadays, they’re denser, 100x faster and as competitively priced as hard disks in most server configurations. At Etsy, we’ve been trying … Continue reading

systemd: Using ExecStop to depool nodes for fun and profit

Laurie Denness — Mon, 23 Feb 2015 17:23:06 +0000

TweetPreface: There is a tonne of drama about systemd on the internets; it won’t take you long to find it, if you’re curious. Despite that, I’m largely a fan and focusing on all the cool stuff I can finally do as an ops person without basically re-writing crappy bash scripts for a living (cough sys-v … Continue reading

Why I’ll be letting Nagios live on a bit longer, thank you very much

Laurie Denness — Wed, 19 Feb 2014 18:03:03 +0000

TweetMy my, hasn’t @supersheep stirred up a bit of controversy over Nagios over the last week? In case you missed it, he brought up an excellent topic that’s close my heart: Nagios. In his words, we should stop using it, so we can let it die. (I read about this in DevOpsWeekly, which you should … Continue reading

Easy image sharing on OS X using Scrup

Laurie Denness — Thu, 29 Mar 2012 17:46:50 +0000

TweetNowadays, people are really into this whole “Skitch” thing, and being able to send images/screenshots to each other quickly. I’d been doing the same thing with TinyGrab for a long time, but I like to host things myself. Yes, TinyGrab has the ability to upload to your own server… but it uses FTP. This was … Continue reading

timeout waiting for input from local during Draining Input

Laurie Denness — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 02:10:54 +0000

TweetI experienced this today, very frustrating; sendmail all locked up and outputting this bizarre “timeout waiting for input from local during Draining Input” error into the logs. tl;dr: figure out what sendmail is waiting for. In my case, it was stuck on procmail. But why? Turns out the local mailbox (a user that runs a … Continue reading

PagerdutyPHP: Scripts for the Pagerduty API

Laurie Denness — Mon, 22 Aug 2011 11:23:35 +0000

TweetAs much as most of us would love to not have to do it, most people reading this now will have to be on call at some point. It sucks, but Pagerduty makes it a little easier to manage when your team starts to grow. Whilst we still have Nagios sending to all contacts directly (a … Continue reading

Hadoop and Ganglia 3.1

Laurie Denness — Mon, 28 Mar 2011 13:27:15 +0000

TweetA quick note to anyone setting up a new Hadoop cluster and hoping to quickly use the built in Ganglia metrics collection (which you should! If it moves, graph it!): This works out of the box with Ganglia 3.0, but the protocol changed with Ganglia 3.1. The official GangliaMetrics pages talks about this, and talks about … Continue reading

Handy binaries for Thecus NAS boxes

Laurie Denness — Mon, 29 Nov 2010 11:04:25 +0000

TweetI recently took delivery of the rather splendid Thecus N5500 which I love; it’s the perfect mix between “it just works” and “oh, let’s stick SSH on there and poke around”. With 5 hot swap disk shelves, and 2TB hard drives you’ve got a serious amount of storage. For your money you get a very … Continue reading