Techniques for Scaling the Netflix API
Daniel Jacobson covers the history of Netflix’s APIs, adaptation for the cloud, development and testing, resiliency, and the future of their APIs.
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Keeping Movies Running Amid Thunderstorms!
Siddharth Anand presents how Netflix’s architecture evolved from a traditional 3-tier configuration to a cloud-based one, detailing the scalability and fault tolerant issues encountered.
Building for the Cloud @ Netflix
Carl Quinn presents the build and deployment architecture used by Neflix in order to provide content out of Amazon AWS.
NoSQL @ Netflix
Siddharth “Sid” Anand explains the technical details behind the move from Oracle used inside their data center to SimpleDB and S3 in the cloud, and from there to Cassandra.
Netflix’s Cloud Data Architecture
Siddharth Anand overviews Netflix’s business model, then he explains why they chose Amazon AWS, and how they moved their data into the cloud using a NoSQL solution.
Netflix in the Cloud
Adrian Cockcroft discusses the advantages of running Netflix services in Amazon’s cloud, comparing the old data center solution against the new cloud architecture implemented to offer faster, more scalable, more available, and more productive services across the enterprise.
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ThoughtWorks’ Jez Humble Delivers on Continuous Delivery
In this interview Jez Humble discusses the concept of continuous delivery, which implies that software should always be production ready throughout its lifecycle. That means that every build could be released into production and run effectively. Continuous delivery involves build and deployment automation, continuous integration, test automation, managing infrastructure and environments and more.