Netflix

“And in the world of retail, this concept of churn is really fuzzy. So Netflix knows when their customers quit, you know, because you actually cancel. But a retailer, you know, your big retail brand, Amazon or something, and you had this customer who was orderi…”

“Netflix is spitting out anywhere from 10 to 20 or 30 terabytes a day”

“Netflix and Google, some of the best machine learning companies in the world, and these are their core products, and they still make mistakes. Yet these are not fatal mistakes. They've built fault tolerance into the machine learning.”

“They paid a million dollar bounty, and they wound up looking at the code, and there were hundreds of separate models that were then boosted together, and they said there's no way we can do it.”

“At Netflix it was like pulling teeth to get the customer to tell you anything about themselves, right? They rely completely on implicit data.”

“Since we open sourced it, you know, roughly five years ago, Kafka is used in thousands of companies worldwide, from Uber, and LinkedIn, and Netflix, all the way to traditional enterprises like eBay, and PayPal, and Cisco, and Goldman Sachs.”

“Ah, Parquet, Netflix uses that for all of their infrastructure essentially.”

“Netflix has this really interesting corporate culture of freedom and responsibility. Which means that our data science teams, they are essentially free to use whatever tooling that works best for them.”

“We have a workflow scheduler called Mason. Mason, which is a program scheduler that's being used to drive all of our ETL as well as machine learning pipelines.”

“My team has six engineers right now.”

“In terms of compute our container orchestration platform is called Titus, which is yet another open source project.”

“We use SG as so like the storage layer for our data warehouse, and we use Spark, Presto, Snowflake as our query engines.”

“All these recommendations actually generate offline.”

“They have hundreds of cockroach clusters already.”

“We are taking this very powerful analytical database that's used by companies like Spotify and Netflix and Disney and Uber and eBay and Cloudflare, and we're building a managed service in the cloud that we're calling ClickHouse Cloud.”

“We're the creators of an open source project called Trino, which is a pretty popular project used by a lot of the Big internet companies like Netflix and Airbnb and LinkedIn and so forth.”