Scaling Netflix's threat detection pipelines without streaming

Data orchestration challenges I faced at Netflix, Airbnb, & Facebook (Part II)

Back in 2018, I was part of Netflix’s real-time threat detection team. I owned the orchestration and delivery layer of a detection pipeline that flagged fraudulent behavior, security breaches, and abuse patterns across our global platform.

At the time, we were leveraging a creative hybrid architecture internally dubbed as the “Psycho Pattern.” Think of i…