Fault Tolerance in a High Volume, Distributed System

by Ben ChristensenIn an earlier post by Ben Schmaus, we shared the principles behind our circuit-breaker implementation. In that post, Ben discusses how the Netflix API interacts with dozens of systems in our service-oriented architecture, which makes the API inherently more...

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Aegisthus - A Bulk Data Pipeline out of Cassandra

By Charles Smith and Jeff MagnussonOur job in Data Science and Engineering is to consume all the data that Netflix produces and provide an offline batch-processing platform for analyzing and enriching it. As has been mentioned in previous posts, Netflix has recently been engaged...

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Announcing Priam

By Praveen Sadhu, Vijay Parthasarathy & Aditya JamiWe talked in the past about our move to NoSQL and Cassandra has been a big part of that strategy. Cassandra hit a big milestone recently with the announcement of the v1 release. We recently announced Astyanax, Netflix's...

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Announcing Servo

By Brian Harrington & Greg OrzellIn a previous blog post about auto scaling, I mentioned that we would be open sourcing the library that we use to expose application metrics. Servo is that library. It is designed to make it easy for developers to export metrics from their...

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