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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. At the time, the data engineering team mainly used a data warehouse ETL tool called Ab Initio, and an MPP (Massively Parallel Processing) database for warehousing. The company was primarily thought of as a tech company.

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

CIO

IT is not an individual sport,” says Laura Baldwin, president at O’Reilly Media. That untruth has lived for a long time but it’s going to start running out of oxygen very quickly, though there are some hard-core engineering cultures that hang on to that mystique and worship the ability to be these grumpy know-it-alls.”

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Leading Remote and Distributed Engineering Teams – Top Takeaways from the Panel

Gitprime

Womersley suggests a first step of moving a team’s discussions into an internet-based tool or platform to level the playing field for your own workforce. Furthermore, her teams use online document tools to issue RFCs and to develop structured, written decision-making that can happen asynchronously.