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Asynchronous Programming at Netflix

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Summary

Jafar Husain shows the Reactive Extensions (Rx) library which allows one to treat events as collections, how Netflix uses Rx on the client and the server, allowing it to build end-to-end reactive systems.

Bio

Jafar Husain developed software for companies like GE, Microsoft, and Netflix. He specializes in building web servers and clients using functional reactive programming, and was the first user of the Reactive Extensions Framework. He's also responsible for "Falkor", a RESTful data access framework that powers most Netflix clients.

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Jan 04, 2015

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