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Data Engineers of Netflix?—?Interview with Kevin Wylie

Netflix Tech

In his free time he enjoys gardening and playing sports with his 4 kids. The knowledge graph enabled us to better understand the trends of movies, TV shows, talent, and books. Before joining Netflix, he worked at MySpace, helping implement page categorization, pathing analysis, sessionization, and more.

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Is the power of people skills enough to keep gen AI in check?

CIO

And it plans to add more than 1,080 new soft skills-related offerings this year, including live training courses, video courses, and books. “IT IT is not an individual sport,” says Laura Baldwin, president at O’Reilly Media. That might continue to work for a few rarified geniuses, he adds. But most of us are mere mortals,” he says.

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On Becoming a VP of Engineering, Part 2: Doing the Job

Honeycomb

If you’re interested in exec team dynamics and the craft of strategy, these three books have been particularly formative for our exec team: The Advantage : Why Organizational Health Trumps Everything Else in Business by Patrick Lencioni Good Strategy Bad Strategy by Richard P.