Getting to know the Ivi Big Data team

In a recent interview on Habr, Vova Petukhov, head of the Big Data department at the online cinema Ivi, discussed the work of the Groot team. This department manages critical infrastructure processing tens of thousands of events per second. The team's primary task is collecting real-time data used for recommendation engines, content personalization, and training machine learning models. The conversation covered both the technical aspects of building services on top of data storage and the company's internal culture. Petukhov shared insights on how the team learns from mistakes, structures development processes, and maintains informal relationships, including team outings and brainstorming startup ideas. The article provides a glimpse into how data engineers work at a major media service and the challenges faced by professionals handling high-load information processing systems.