17: Working with Data at Netflix with Ioannis Papapanagiotou

This week on The Data Stack Show, Kostas and Eric are joined by Ioannis Papapanagiotou, senior engineering manager at Netflix. Ioannis oversees Netflix’s data storage platform and its data integration platform. Their conversation highlighted the various responsibilities his lean teams have, utilizing open source technology and incorporating change data capture solutions.

Key points in this week’s episode include:

• Ioannis’ background with academia and Netflix (4:42)
• Comparing the data storage and data integration teams (6:19)
• Discussing indexing and encryption (20:31)
• Netflix’s role in the open source community (27:21)
• Implementing change data capture (40:42)
• Using Bulldozer to efficiently move data in batches from data warehouse tables to key-value stores (42:43)

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