How Warner Bros. is Using Elastic to Solve Entertainment and Media Problems at Scale

Nathan Necaise

Brian Kursar

Warner Bros. processes billions of records each day globally between its web assets, digital content distribution, OTT streaming services, online and mobile games, technical operations, anti-piracy programs, social media, and retail point of sale transactions. Despite having large MPP clusters, a significant amount of dark data remained trapped in Web Logs. In this presentation, we will discuss how Warner Bros. and Decision Lab leveraged the new Elastic Stack 5.x coupled with Apache Spark, to deliver scalable insights and new capabilities to support business needs.