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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Edda - Learn the Stories of Your Cloud Deployments

By Cory Bennett, Engineering Tools Operating "in the cloud" has its challenges, and one of those challenges is that nothing is static. Virtual host instances are constantly coming and going, IP addresses can get reused by different applications, and firewalls suddenly appear as security configurations are updated. At Netflix we needed something to...

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