Announcing EVCache: Distributed in-memory datastore for Cloud

By : Shashi MadappaEVCache is a distributed in-memory caching solution based on memcached & spymemcached that is well integrated with Netflix OSS and AWS EC2 infrastructure. Today we are announcing the open sourcing of EVCache client library on Github.EVCache is an abbreviation...

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Netflix Queue: Data migration for a high volume web application

by Prasanna Padmanabhan & Shashi MadappaThere will come a time in the life of most systems serving data, when there is a need to migrate data to a more reliable, scalable and high performance data store while maintaining or improving data consistency, latency and efficiency....

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First NetflixOSS Meetup

By Adrian Cockcroft and Ruslan MeshenbergThe inaugural Netflix Open Source Software (NetflixOSS) meetup was held at Netflix headquarters in Los Gatos California on February 6th 2013. We had over 200 attendees; individual developers, academics, vendors and companies, from small...

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Reactive Programming in the Netflix API with RxJava

by Ben Christensen and Jafar HusainOur recent post on optimizing the Netflix API introduced how our web service endpoints are implemented using a reactive programming model for composition of asynchronous callbacks from our service layer. This post takes a closer look at how and why we use the reactive model and introduces our open source project...

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