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Foundation Model for Personalized Recommendation

Netflix Tech

Drawing an analogy to Byte Pair Encoding (BPE) in NLP, we can think of tokenization as merging adjacent actions to form new, higher-level tokens. For example, new title embeddings can be initialized by adding slight random noise to existing average embeddings or by using a weighted combination of similar titles embeddings based on metadata.

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Introducing Netflix’s Key-Value Data Abstraction Layer

Netflix Tech

The first level is a hashed string ID (the primary key), and the second level is a sorted map of a key-value pair of bytes. Chunked data can be written by staging chunks and then committing them with appropriate metadata (e.g. This model supports both simple and complex data models, balancing flexibility and efficiency.

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Open-Sourcing AvroTensorDataset: A Performant TensorFlow Dataset For Processing Avro Data

LinkedIn Engineering

An Avro file is formatted with the following bytes: Figure 1: Avro file and data block byte layout The Avro file consists of four “magic” bytes, file metadata (including a schema, which all objects in this file must conform to), a 16-byte file-specific sync marker, and a sequence of data blocks separated by the file’s sync marker.

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A Definitive Guide to Using BigQuery Efficiently

Towards Data Science

Like a dragon guarding its treasure, each byte stored and each query executed demands its share of gold coins. Join as we journey through the depths of cost optimization, where every byte is a precious coin. It is also possible to set a maximum for the bytes billed for your query. Photo by Konstantin Evdokimov on Unsplash ?

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Netflix Cloud Packaging in the Terabyte Era

Netflix Tech

The inspection stage examines the input media for compliance with Netflix’s delivery specifications and generates rich metadata. The index file keeps track of the physical location (URL) of each chunk and also keeps track of the physical location (URL + byte offset + size) of each video frame to facilitate downstream processing.

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Aligning Velox and Apache Arrow: Towards composable data management

Engineering at Meta

In the new representation , the first four bytes of the view object always contain the string size. Otherwise, a prefix of the string is stored in the next four bytes, followed by the buffer ID (StringViews can contain multiple data buffers) and the offset in that data buffer. first writing StringView at position 2, then 0 and 1).

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Improving Efficiency Of Goku Time Series Database at Pinterest (Part?—?1)

Pinterest Engineering

The bucket in itself is actually nothing but a collection of SST files holding all the time series data and metadata for the corresponding bucket size. See the graph below, which shows the compaction read and write bytes on a cluster when it is bootstrapping for the first time. The bucket id is unix time divided by bucket size.

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