Netflix
Past Presentations
Zero to Production-Ready in Minutes
The fabric of Netflix's approach to building new highly-available services is evolving. The Runtime Platform Team is focused on improving developer productivity while simultaneously making it simpler to build and maintain the high-availability services that Netflix expects. Starting with...
Scaling Event Sourcing for Netflix Downloads
In November of 2016 Netflix successfully launched its new Download feature, allowing users to download and play content offline on their mobile devices. This feature required us to change our previously stateless distributed licensing service to be real time and stateful. In a matter of months we...
Refactoring Organizations - A Netflix Study
Is your service architecture and engineering velocity constrained by organizational concerns? Does it seem impossible to give priority to key initiatives regardless of intent? Are engineers switching tasks so often that they are just treading water? Are critical projects endlessly backlogged? Has...
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...
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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