Improving Netflix’s Operational Visibility with Real-Time Insight Tools

By Ranjit Mavinkurve, Justin Becker and Ben ChristensenFor Netflix to be successful, we have to be vigilant in supporting the tens of millions of connected devices that are used by our 40+ million members throughout 40+ countries. These members consume more than one billion...

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S3mper: Consistency in the Cloud

by: Daniel C. Weeks In previous posts, we discussed how the Hadoop platform at Netflix leverages AWS’s S3 offering (read more here). In short, Netflix considers S3 the “source of truth” for all data warehousing.  There are many attractive features that draw us to this service...

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Introducing PigPen: Map-Reduce for Clojure

by: Matt Bossenbroek It is our pleasure to release PigPen to the world today. PigPen is map-reduce for Clojure. It compiles to Apache Pig, but you don’t need to know much about Pig to use it. What is PigPen? A map-reduce language that looks and behaves like clojure.coreThe...

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