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Evolution of the Netflix API
Ben Christensen describes Netflix API's evolution to a web service platform serving all devices and users, the challenges met in operations, deployment, performance, fault-tolerance, and innovation.
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Programming in the Cloud - Groovy as an Extension Language for Oracle ADFm
Jim Driscoll discusses using ADFm to create and change Groovy scripts at runtime and debugging a live system with JWDP.
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How Netflix Architects for Survival
Jeremy Edberg discusses how Netflix designs their systems in order to survive outages, network latency and random instance failure.
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Big Data Platform as a Service at Netflix
Jeff Magnusson details some of Netflix' key services: Franklin, Sting and Lipstick.
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Why Must I Use Cloud Foundry's Bosh? I just Learned Chef/Puppet!
Nic Williams discusses deploying Cloud Foundry on AWS or OpenStack using Bosh, a tool chain for release engineering, deployment and lifecycle management of large scale distributed services.
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Building a Continuous Delivery Pipeline with Gradle and Jenkins
Peter Niederwieser discusses building a continuous delivery pipeline with Gradle and Jenkins.
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Dare Mighty Things: How JPL Explores the Cosmos through the Clouds
Rob Witoff presents how JPL and the Curiosity rover mission use cloud computing, including EC2, CloudFormation, and Simple Workflow - to enable research, engineering and operations technologies.
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Orchestrating Tasks from the Cloud with Groovy and AWS SWF
Clay McCoy discusses using Groovy’s metaprogramming capabilities and AWS SWF to deal with unreliable remote services, parallelization, scheduling critical timers, and server failures.
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Asgard, the Grails App that Deploys Netflix to the Cloud
Joe Sondow presents how Netflix uses Asgard to deploy code updates and manage resources in the Amazon cloud.
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Making the Internet a Better Place: Scaling AppNexus
Mike Nolet shares lessons learned scaling AppNexus and architectural details of their system processing 30TB/day: Hadoop, DNS built in GSLB and Keepalived, and real-time data streaming built in C.
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VMFest: Wrapping VirtualBox to Speedup Dev and Test Since 2010
Antoni Batchelli introduces VMFest, a PalletOps project used to turn VirtualBox into a lightweight cloud provider, good for developing cloud automation.
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How to Sneak Clojure Into Your Rails Shop
Joshua Ballanco introduces Immutant, Immutant Overlay, HornetQ and OpenShift to Ruby and Rails developers.