Netflix’s 57M members watch over 2 billion hours of content per month and their streaming accounts for 1/3rd of Internet traffic in some parts of the world. Each time a member starts to watch a movie or TV episode, a “view” is created in our data systems and a collection of events describing that view is gathered. The system Netflix built to manage and process this critical data devolved over time into a monolith, but needed to evolve into microservices to be able to scale to the next order...

Microservices. REST APIs. Client Libraries. Dependency Hell.

This talk will cover lessons learned building an expansive micro service architecture at Gilt - an organization with 1500 git repositories and over 400 individual applications powering its apps and web sites. We emphasize the importance of REST APIs and great client libraries to talk to them as a critical step to adoption.. Two of the most important lessons we've learned are to reduce dependencies and to provide consistent...