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Past Presentations
UNBREAKABLE: Learning to Bend but Not Break at Netflix
How do you gain confidence that a system is behaving as designed and identify vulnerabilities before they become outages? You may have thought about using chaos engineering for this purpose, but it’s not always clear what that means or if it’s a good fit for your system and team. My...
Large Scale Architectures Panel
Join Karen Casella of Netflix as she explores architectural issues with a panel of experts from some of the world's largest architectures.
Containers at Web Scale Panel
Containers and container management platforms are becoming a standard part of many infrastructures. At Facebook, Google, Netflix, and Uber container technologies have been a large part of their infrastructures for many years. By leveraging these technologies, each company has seen improvements in...
Scaling Push Messaging for Millions of Devices @Netflix
How do you efficiently serve the latest personalized movie recommendations to millions of Netflix members, as soon as they are ready? Netflix recently rolled out Zuul Push - a massively scalable push notification service that handles millions of "always-on" persistent connections from all those...
How Machines Help Humans Root Cause Issues @Netflix
Automated root cause detection represents a holy grail goal for many systems monitoring tools. It’s also an extremely challenging domain. A successful approach must generalize well from limited examples, handle highly dimensional data, understand the application domain, and perform well in a...
Choose Your Own Adventure: Chaos Engineering
Chaos Engineering is described as "the discipline of experimenting on a distributed system in order to build confidence in the system's capability to withstand turbulent conditions in production". This is immensely beneficial when executed properly, however all too often the road to cultural...
Interviews
UNBREAKABLE: Learning to Bend but Not Break at Netflix
Tell me about your talk.
I’m going to share my personal journey at Netflix learning to build and operate distributed systems -- both as a service owner and as a Chaos engineer. As service owner, I’ll provide examples of how I used Chaos engineering to build better systems, even for non-critical services. As a chaos engineer, I’ll cover some of the...
Read Full InterviewScaling Push Messaging for Millions of Devices @Netflix
Zuul is your API gateway right? What is the relationship between Zuul and Zuul Push?
Yes, Zuul is Netflix’ API gateway (all of the Netflix HTTP API traffic passed through Zuu). We took the Zuul code base and grafted Zuul Push on it, so it's a different offering. But they share 90% of the same code base.
Read Full InterviewHow Machines Help Humans Root Cause Issues @Netflix
You're at Netflix. What team are you working on, and what's the focus of the work that you do?
I work on a team called operational insights.
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