A Closer Look At The Christmas Eve Outage

by Adrian CockcroftNetflix streaming was impacted on Christmas Eve 2012 by problems in the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Elastic Load Balancer (ELB) service that routes network traffic to the Netflix services supporting streaming. The postmortem report by AWS can be read here. We apologize for the inconvenience and loss of service. We’d like to explain...

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Building the Netflix UI for Wii U

Hello, my name is Joubert Nel and I’m a UI engineer on the TV UI team here at Netflix. Our team builds the Netflix experiences for hundreds of TV devices, like the PlayStation 3, Wii, Apple TV, and Google TV.We recently launched on Nintendo’s new Wii U game console. Like other...

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Complexity In The Digital Supply Chain

Netflix launched in Denmark, Norway, Sweden, and Finland on Oct. 15th. I just returned from a trip to Europe to review the content deliveries with European studios that prepared content for this launch. This trip reinforced for me that today’s Digital Supply Chain for the streaming video industry is awash in accidental complexity. Fortunately the...

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Hystrix Dashboard + Turbine Stream Aggregator

by Ben Christensen, Puneet Oberai and Ben Schmaus Two weeks ago we introduced Hystrix, a library for engineering resilience into distributed systems. Today we're open sourcing the Hystrix dashboard application, as well as a new companion project called Turbine that provides...

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Videos of the Netflix talks at AWS Re:Invent

by Adrian CockcroftMost of the talks and panel sessions at AWS Re:Invent were recorded, but there are so many sessions that it's hard to find the Netflix ones. Here's a link to all of the videos posted by AWS that mention Netflix: http://www.youtube.com/user/AmazonWebServices/videos?query=netflixThey are presented below in what seems like a natural...

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AWS Re:Invent was Awesome!

by Adrian CockcroftThere was a very strong Netflix presence at AWS Re:Invent in Las Vegas this week, from Reed Hastings appearing in the opening keynote, to a packed series of ten talks by Netflix management and engineers, and our very own expo booth. The event was a huge success, over 6000 attendees, great new product and service announcements, very...

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Introducing Hystrix for Resilience Engineering

by Ben Christensen In a distributed environment, failure of any given service is inevitable. Hystrix is a library designed to control the interactions between these distributed services providing greater tolerance of latency and failure. Hystrix does this by isolating points...

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Announcing Blitz4j - a scalable logging framework

By Karthikeyan RanganathanWe are proud to announce Blitz4j , a critical component of the Netflix logging infrastructure that helps Netflix achieve high volume logging without affecting scalability of the applications.What is Blitz4j?Blitz4j is a logging framework built on top...

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